Former NHL head coach Jacques Demers, who guided the Montreal Canadiens to the Stanley Cup in 1993, admitted today that he never learned how to read. The details of Demers illiteracy are spelled out in his new biography. One interesting detail is how Demers, who is originally from Montreal and speaks both French and English, used his bilingualism as a way to hide his illiteracy. When someone asked him to read something in English, he would decline and say he's better at reading French, and vice versa. Francophone visitors can read more here.
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I guess the US doesn't care about hockey or illiteracy. I really can't even imagine what it would be like to be illiterate in this day and age. You couldn't even blog.
After reading this story, I'm not entirely convinced Demers was illiterate - he seems to just be a lazy bastard who didn't bother to learn more than writing "best wishes" or never bothered to learn how to "read good."
Which gets me thinking, how did he keep the X and O's straight in his game plan? No wonder the Wings couldn't win the Cup in the eighties, they probably had to read shit like "Enuffz Enuffz! Pley 2 win, Yous ur Hed!" on the blackboard. I bet he loves to send text messages on his cell phone though.
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