For the past 10 years, Jacques Demers has been battling the disease. It has been a long time since the former Canadiens coach ...

Wayne Gretzky isn't hard to root for. He's a legend coming back from a career-threatening back injury to lead the Los Angeles Kings to their first Stanley Cup finals. Montreal Canadiens coach Jacques ...

ST. LOUIS -- It was Aug. 17, 1983 when the St. Louis Blues named the 13th coach in franchise history when they hired Jacques Demers. Demers was a gamble at the time for the Blues, with just one year ...

MONTREAL — Former Montreal Canadiens coach Jacques Demers is getting better every day and has begun eating after a recent stroke, his doctors said Friday. The 71-year-old Demers, now a Canadian ...

MONTREAL --Jacques Demers has the distinction of holding a pair of labels that begin "most recent coach to…" One he would be delighted to shed; he would not be heartbroken to keep the other. Demers ...

Jacques Demers, the former NHL coach turned Canadian senator, said he will have a third operation after nearly dying during a botched hernia procedure. The 66-year-old Demers made his first public ...

Hospital officials say Sen. Jacques Demers is responding well to therapy and that his overall medical condition is stable after his stroke a week ago. The McGill University Health Centre said in a ...

MONTREAL - A gruesome accident during what should have been a routine operation nearly killed hockey man-turned-parliamentarian Jacques Demers this summer. The frail-looking Conservative senator has ...

MONTREAL (AP) — Former Montreal Canadiens coach Jacques Demers was in a Montreal hospital Thursday, a day after having a stroke. The 71-year-old Demers is now a Canadian senator. Claude Carignan, the ...