Peter Gilmore Demers (born November 4, 1943) is a retired head athletic trainer for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League.
He is a member of the Professional Hockey Athletic Trainers Society Hall of Fame (2007), and a Hockey Hall of Fame honoree (2007).
He successfully advocated for improvements to the trainers and equipment managers’ benefit package that took effect in 2006.
He was made a member of the U.S.
Hockey Hall of Fame in 2016 and the L.A.
Kings Hall of Fame in 1997.
He served for three terms as president of the Professional Hockey Athletic Trainers Society (1994-2000) after serving on the board for 20 years.
He worked with Olympic athletes, and international hockey teams.
He retired in 2006 after 2,632 consecutive regular season NHL games as the team athletic trainer.
He has two children, Aimee Demers, and Thomas Demers.