MONTREAL — Jean-Man Talbot, one among 12 Montreal Canadiens gamers to win 5 consecutive Stanley Cups from 1956 to 1960, has died. He was 91.
The Canadiens introduced Talbot’s demise Friday morning after a number of media retailers reported the information.
Born in Quebec on July 11, 1932, Talbot performed 17 seasons within the NHL with 5 groups from 1954 to 1971. Talbot additionally served as coach of the St. Louis Blues from 1972 to ’74, and the New York Rangers in 1977-78. He held comparable positions within the World Hockey Affiliation in 1975-76.
Throughout his taking part in profession, Talbot totaled 43 objectives and 242 assists with 1,014 penalty minutes in 1,066 video games. He had 4 objectives and 26 assists with 142 penalty minutes in 151 playoff video games.
In 801 video games with the Canadiens from 1954 to 1967, he recorded 36 objectives and 209 assists and likewise gained the Stanley Cup in 1965 and 1966. He had his finest particular person season in 1961-62 with 5 objectives and 42 assists in 70 video games to earn him his solely choice as an NHL first-team All-Star. That very same season, he completed third in Norris Trophy voting as finest defenseman, behind the New York Rangers’ Doug Harvey and Chicago’s Pierre Pilote.
After dropping to the Toronto Maple Leafs within the 1967 Stanley Cup Closing, he was claimed by the Minnesota North Stars within the NHL enlargement draft however performed solely 4 video games with them earlier than being traded to the Detroit Crimson Wings.
After 32 video games with the Crimson Wings, Talbot was claimed off waivers by the Blues. In St. Louis, Talbot reunited with former Canadiens teammates Harvey, Dickie Moore and goalie Jacques Plante, all of whom performed key roles in Montreal’s late-Nineteen Fifties dynasty.
Talbot helped the Blues attain the Stanley Cup Closing in three straight seasons. Nonetheless, they had been swept every time — twice by the Canadiens and as soon as by the Boston Bruins.
Don Marshall, additionally 91 years previous, is the one survivor of the Canadiens’ late-Nineteen Fifties dynasty.