Guy Lafleur: Did passed away| Tribute| How did die| Number

Guy Damien Lafleur OC CQ, nicknamed “the Flower” and “Le Démon Blond”, was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He was the first player in National Hockey League history to score 50 goals in six consecutive seasons as well as 50 goals and 100 points in six consecutive seasons.

Guy Lafleur: Did passed away| Tribute| How did die| Number

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Guy Damien Lafleur, one of the greatest hockey players to take to the ice, has died at age 70.

Fans of the Montreal Canadiens hockey team paid tribute to the fallen legend Friday, leaving flowers at the base of the Guy Lafleur statue that stands outside the Bell Centre in downtown Montreal.

Though the team didn’t identify a cause of death, Lafleur had been battling lung cancer for nearly three years.

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Lafleur’s career spanned 20 years, all but six of which he spent with the Montreal Canadiens, the team for which he won five Stanley Cup championships, four consecutively, in the 1970s. He is the Canadiens’ all-time high scorer, with 1,246 points.

In 1984, Lafleur announced he would be retiring at the end of the season. The Canadiens retired his No. 10 jersey at the end of the 1984-85 season, but Lafleur didn’t stay off the ice for long.

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The Canadiens played tribute to the Hall of Famer who died Friday at age 70 with a ceremony.

A video of Lafleur’s goals and of him lifting the Stanley Cup played at the Bell Centre before fans gave him a standing ovation that lasted more than 10 minutes.

He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1988 before shocking the world once again, the NHL said, announcing he would play once more, this time with the New York Rangers.

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In 1998, he was ranked number 11 on The Hockey News list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players. In 2017, he was named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players by the NHL as part of its centennial celebration.

The QMJHL retired Lafleur’s number 4 league-wide at the start of the 2021–22 season.

The Canadiens announced the Hall of Famer’s death Friday morning. He had been battling lung cancer since 2019. The news comes a week after the death of fellow Hall of Famer Mike Bossy, a four-time Stanley Cup winner with the New York Islanders in the same era as Lafleur.