Martin St Louis is a Canadian hockey coach and former professional ice hockey player.
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60 Facts About Martin St Louis
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Martin St Louis is the current head coach of the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League .
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St Louis is best remembered for having played with the Tampa Bay Lightning from 2000 until being traded to the Rangers in 2014.
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Martin St Louis briefly played with HC Lausanne of the Swiss National League A Martin St Louis was a member of the Tampa Bay Lightning's Stanley Cup championship team in 2004.
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St Louis was elected into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2018; his first year of eligibility.
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St Louis is widely considered to be one of the best undrafted players of all time.
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St Louis was a standout player in college for the Vermont Catamounts, earning East Coast Athletic Conference and National Collegiate Athletic Association all-American honors for three consecutive seasons between 1995 and 1997.
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St Louis has on three occasions won the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy as the NHL's most gentlemanly player.
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Martin St Louis was a member of the team that won the 2004 World Cup of Hockey and is a two-time silver medalist at the World Championships; he was named a tournament all-star after leading the 2009 event in scoring with 15 points.
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Martin St Louis was passed over for a provincial team at a midget age tournament despite leading his league in scoring.
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St Louis was listed at five feet nine inches tall in college.
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Martin St Louis often struggled to gain recognition for his ability, while teams showed little interest in him.
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Martin St Louis was heavily recruited by National Collegiate Athletic Association schools to play for their programs, however.
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Martin St Louis had 71 points in 35 games and was named both an ECAC First Team All-Star and NCAA All-American for the first of three consecutive seasons.
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Martin St Louis tied friend and teammate Eric Perrin for the NCAA scoring lead and the pair, along with goaltender Tim Thomas, led the Catamounts to the first ECAC hockey championship in school history.
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St Louis finished as Vermont's all-time leading scorer with 267 points, a record he continues to hold as of 2014, as well as his school mark of 176 assists.
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Martin St Louis won the J Edward Donnelly Award as the top male senior athlete at the University of Vermont in 1997 and was named to the ECAC's all-decade team of the 1990s.
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NHL offers St Louis anticipated never materialized as teams lost interest in him.
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Martin St Louis was assigned to their then-American Hockey League affiliate, the Saint John Flames, where he scored 26 points in 25 regular season games.
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Martin St Louis then added 20 points in 20 playoff games as Saint John reached the Calder Cup finals, losing in six games to the Philadelphia Phantoms.
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Martin St Louis began the season playing with Calgary's top forward, Theoren Fleury, but was quickly demoted to the fourth line, and often sat out of the lineup.
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Martin St Louis appeared in only 13 games in Calgary, spending the majority of the season in Saint John where he led the AHL squad with 28 goals and 62 points.
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St Louis completed his first full NHL season with 3 goals and 18 points in 56 games.
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Martin St Louis chose to sign with the Tampa Bay Lightning as he believed they were the most likely to give him playing time in the NHL.
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Martin St Louis struggled at first, failing to score a goal in the first six weeks of the season and again found himself out of the lineup at times.
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Martin St Louis led the team in plus-minus at +10 and appeared in his first NHL All-Star Game.
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St Louis won the puck control relay event and finished second in the fastest skater events of the 2003 All-Star Game's skills competition.
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Martin St Louis finished fourth overall with 38 goals and his plus-minus of +38 led the league.
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Martin St Louis led the 2004 playoffs with 15 assists and finished with 24 playoff points in 23 games.
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Martin St Louis led the Lightning to the Stanley Cup Finals against Calgary, against whom he scored the overtime winning goal in game six to force a deciding seventh game of the series.
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St Louis won several post-season awards: He was named a first team All-Star and voted recipient of the Lester B Pearson Award as the NHL's most valuable player as selected by the players.
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Martin St Louis won the Hart Memorial Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player.
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Martin St Louis signed a contract with HC Lausanne of Switzerland's National League A Martin St Louis scored 25 points in 23 games.
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Martin St Louis finished with his third 30-goal season, but scored only 61 points on the campaign.
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Martin St Louis finished with career highs in goals, 43, and points, 102.
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Martin St Louis was named to the second All-Star team following the season.
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Martin St Louis had two 11-game point streaks during the season, the longest in franchise history, and was named to the second All-Star team.
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Martin St Louis was a finalist for the Hart Memorial Trophy for the second time, losing out to Corey Perry.
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The 36-year-old St Louis finished the season with 74 points in 77 games.
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Martin St Louis replaced Vincent Lecavalier, who departed Tampa in the off-season.
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St Louis was ultimately named to the team as an injury replacement after Steven Stamkos was not medically cleared to play.
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Martin St Louis felt a lack of respect when Yzerman initially left him off the Canadian team.
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St Louis expressed his regret over the damage the events caused to his relationship with the fans in Tampa.
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St Louis struggled offensively in his first games with the Rangers as he went 14 games without scoring a goal.
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St Louis led the team with 8 goals in the playoffs and finished second with 15 points, but the Rangers lost the final to the Los Angeles Kings in five games.
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St Louis finished the 2015 playoff campaign with 1 goal and 6 assists in 19 playoff games.
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Rangers did not offer St Louis a new contract during the off-season, despite his desire to return to the team.
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Martin St Louis appeared in all nine games for Team Canada, scoring ten points.
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St Louis was named to the tournament's all-star team at forward.
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Martin St Louis was selected as a reserve by Team Canada for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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In 2017, St Louis was offered the position of head coach of the Hartford Wolf Pack, the AHL affiliate of the New York Rangers, by Rangers general manager Jeff Gorton.
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Martin St Louis declined, citing a desire to focus on his sons' youth hockey teams.
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The Canadiens' new general manager, Kent Hughes, had first become acquainted with St Louis while the latter was playing for the University of Vermont, while Gorton, who had previously offered St Louis a coaching role in the AHL, was now the Canadiens' executive vice president.
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An offensive minded player throughout his amateur and minor professional career, St Louis was forced into a checking-line role by the Calgary Flames.
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St Louis met his wife Heather Anne Caragol at the University of Vermont, where he graduated in 1997 with a degree in small business management.
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St Louis became the first player in the history of the Lightning organization to have his jersey retired.
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