2020-21 Artifacts Gloves Materials Guy Lafleur

"Flower" made his debut in the QMJHL during the 1969-1970 season, the league?s, and club's first season. The first game in the history of the Quebec Remparts franchise was played on October 18, 1969 and Lafleur, who wore number 4 like his idol Jean Béliveau, scored four goals and an assist for his team's 10-5 victory against the Sorel Éperviers.

With Lafleur, the 1971 Quebec Remparts were crowned the best team in the East but also won the Memorial Cup at the same time.

While Lafleur has always been a Montreal Canadiens fan and makes the Remparts happy in the QMJHL, Sam Pollock, general manager of the Canadiens, is also interested in the Thurso, Quebec player who will appear in the summer of 1971 in the NHL Entry Draft

Just before the start of the 1971-1972 season, Lafleur's youth idol, Jean Béliveau, announced that he was stopping his career and offered the young Quebec player to wear his number 4. Lafleur declined, aware of the pressure that he already has on his shoulders and the surplus that carrying this number would generate. He then decides to choose number 10.

Following the departure of their captain, the Remparts decide to withdraw Lafleur's number.

GUY LAFLEUR CAREER TOTALS

Games: 1,126 | Goals: 560 | Assists: 793 | Points: 1,353

'The Flower' Was first to score at least 50 goals, 100 points in six straight seasons.

Lafleur won five Stanley Cup championships with the Canadiens, the Hart Trophy twice as the NHL's most valuable player and the Art Ross Trophy as the League's leading scorer three times. He won the Conn Smythe Trophy in 1977 as the MVP of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

After 14 seasons in Montreal, a nearly four-year-retirement, one season with the New York Rangers and two with the Quebec Nordiques.