Regular Season  GP 853 G 366 A 469 PTS 835

Playoffs              GP 145 G  61 A 78  PTS  139 

Jacques Lemaire had a 12 year career in Montreal during which he won eight Stanley Cups including four in a row in his last four seasons in the league from 1975-76 until 1978-79. He broke in with the Canadiens just as the NHL was adding six new franchises 1967-68.He never scored fewer than 20 goals in any of his 12 NHL seasons.

Lemaire became known as a playmaking center with one of the hardest most accurate slap-shots in the league. He started in Montreal though as a checking winger trying to find a job.

Still he managed a point a game as a rookie in the playoffs as the Canadiens with a veteran line-up featuring Jean Beliveau, Ralph Backstrom, Gilles Tremblay, Dick Duff, Henri Richard, Ted Harris and Claude Provost won a cup in his first season. His thirteen points that playoff were second on the team only to another youngster the 23 year old Yvan Cournoyer.