Did you know that Jean Arthur "Le Gros Bill" Béliveau, is a former professional
ice hockey player who played parts of 20 seasons with the
National Hockey League's
Montreal Canadiens?
Did you know that Le Gros was born August 31, 1931 and his family turned down an offer of a minor-league pro contract for Jean at age fifteen?
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Did you know that Béliveau won both the
Art Ross Memorial Trophy as the league's scoring champion and the
Hart Memorial Trophy as its most valuable player?
Did you know that during his 18 full seasons in Montreal, he played on 10
Stanley Cup winning teams 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969,
1971?
Did you know that Le Gros was the first player to win
the
Conn Smythe Trophy for his performance in the
1965 Stanley Cup playoffs?
Did you know that Béliveau retired at the end of the
1970–71 NHL season
as his team's all-time leader in points, second all-time in goals and
the NHL's all-time leading playoff scorer?
Did you know that Le Gros Bill scored 507 goals and had
712 assists for 1,219 points in 1,125 NHL regular-season games plus 79
goals and 97 assists for 176 points in 162 playoff games?
Did you know that his jersey
number (#4) was retired on October 9, 1971?
Did you know that in 1972, he was inducted
into the
Hockey Hall of Fame?
Did you know that he is now the second all-time leading scorer in Canadiens history, behind
Guy Lafleur. Only
Henri Richard (1256 games) and
Larry Robinson (1202 games) played more games for the Habs?
Did you know that Béliveau's name
appears on the
Stanley Cup a record seventeen times, including seven times as an executive for the Canadiens: 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1986, 1993?
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