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- Birth nameElmer James Lach
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Elmer Lach is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 14 seasons for the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League (NHL). A center, he was a member of the Punch line, along with Maurice Richard and Hector 'Toe' Blake. Lach led the NHL in scoring twice, and was awarded the Hart Memorial Trophy in 1945 as the league's most valuable player.
He won three Stanley Cups with Montreal. When Lach retired in 1954, he was the league's all-time leading scorer and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame twelve years later. His number 16 was retired on December 4, 2009, during the Montreal Canadiens centennial celebrations. In 2017 Lach was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.
- IMDb mini biography by: Bazza the Beast
- SpousesLise Desjardins Morel(1986 - October 13, 2014) (her death)Kathleen (Kay) Fletcher(1941 - 1985) (her death, 2 children)
- Before his death, he was the oldest surviving former NHL player (97).
- He is remembered as the center in the Montreal Canadiens' famous Punch Line during the 1940s and early 50s.
- He scored the winning goal in overtime against Boston to clinch the 1953 Stanley Cup.
- At his retirement, he was the league's all-time leader in points with 623, which he accomplished in an era of 50-game seasons in a very competitive six-team league. He missed 150 games with a large number of injuries. He broke his nose seven times and broke his jaw twice in the same season. He missed almost all of his sophomore season with a broken elbow, had a fractured skull, and broke nearly every other bone during his career.
- He was inducted in hockey hall of Fame in 1966. He won the Hart trophy twice.
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