The “Three Denis”: three players with different career paths

They were born on the same day, the same year. During the 1970s, they called the shots on the ice rink in the Verdun Auditorium. Their future seemed promising, but fate took them along different paths. Denis Savard played 1,196 games in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Chicago Blackhawks, the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Montreal Canadiens, where he won the Stanley Cup in 1993. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2001. As for Denis Cyr, he played 193 games in the NHL. Drafted in 1980 by the Calgary Flames, he was often traded back and forth between the NHL and the American Hockey League. Denis Tremblay, for his part, was unfortunately never drafted and never played in the NHL.