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Jim Bedard (ice hockey, born 1956)
Canadian ice hockey player
James Arthur Bédard (born November 17, 1956) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. He played 73 games in the National Hockey League with the Washington Capitals during the 1977–78 and 1978–79 seasons. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1976 to 1994, was spent in the minor leagues and then mainly in I-Divisioona, the second level of hockey in Finland. After his playing career Bédard worked in coaching, serving as the goaltending coach for the Detroit Red Wings from 1996 to 2016 and winning the Stanley Cup three times with the team.[1]