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Lemieux shocked the hockey world by deciding to come back as a player on December 27, 2000, having gained a stake in ownership of the franchise in 1999, becoming the first player – owner in NHL history.
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Mario Lemieux, OC, CQ (; ; born October 5, 1965 ) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and co-owner of the National Hockey League's ( NHL ) Pittsburgh Penguins and the American Hockey League's ( AHL ) Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins.
The 1987 Canada Cup was particularly noteworthy as Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux, widely considered two of the greatest hockey players of all-time, joined together as linemates on Team Canada to capture the country's third championship.
The project stagnated for several years until it was revived by Lemieux, who then focused on implementing an abstracted version of ice hockey, with a thin disk, two mallets and slit-like goals equipped with photodetectors.
Caminiti entered into a partnership with actor Jason Gedrick and hockey player Mario Lemieux to open a cigar bar called Ashes Cigar Club on Wall Street.
There was some hope that a season could have been salvaged, as hockey legends Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux, both now part-owners of NHL teams, brought the owners and players together for talks on February 19.
Their name comes from a headline in a newspaper about hockey player, Mario Lemieux coming back to the NHL.
" Lemieux would come to be known as the team's repeated savior, in addition to being one of the greatest hockey players of all-time.
Martin has written ten books during his career, including a biography of Canadian hockey player Mario Lemieux.
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It was preceded by the Mega Stars game, which featured Gretzky and many of his Oiler Dynasty teammates against a group of retired Montreal Canadiens players ( whose likes included Claude Lemieux, Guy Lafleur and others ).
Lemieux helped lead the Penguins deep into the 2001 playoffs, highlighted by an overtime victory against the Buffalo Sabres in Game 7 of the second round.
During Game 6, Red Wings player Kris Draper was checked into the boards face-first by Avalanche player Claude Lemieux.
* Held record for most assists in one NHL season from 1970 to 1981 ( 87 in 1969 – 70, which he surpassed in 1970 – 71 with 102 ; broken by Wayne Gretzky and also bettered by Mario Lemieux )
On July 3, 2006, Yzerman officially retired, finishing his career ranked as the sixth all-time leading scorer in NHL history, having scored a career-high 155 points ( 65 goals / 90 assists ) in 1988 – 89 which has been bettered only by Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux.
Yzerman finished third in regular season scoring behind Lemieux and Gretzky, won the Lester B. Pearson Award ( MVP as voted by the NHLPA ), and was a finalist for the Hart Trophy ( MVP as voted by the NHL writers ).
On Friday, October 29, 2010 he was brutally knocked out by then undefeated middleweight contender David Lemieux in the 1st round at the Bell Centre, in Montreal, Canada.
Still, the Légers travelled across the country, encouraging Canadian unity at a time fraught with Quebec sovereignty disputes and perceived alienation by other regions, as well promoting the fine arts and artistic endeavours, aided at such by their friendships with painters such as Jean Paul Lemieux, Alfred Pellan, and Jean Dallaire.
Today the rooms are furnished both with elements from the history of the residence as well as art and other objects that showcase contemporary Canadian culture, including pieces by the Group of Seven's Lawren Harris, Emily Carr, Jean Paul Lemieux, and Bill Reid.
What had been praised during Clarkson's tenure, however, was soon critiqued when it was revealed that into Jean's appointment, Rideau Hall's interpretation and exhibition planner, Fabienne Fusade, was removing from sight the portraits of Canada's past and present sovereigns and other members of the Royal Family, in order to fulfill Jean's wish to make the royal residence a showcase for Canadian art and give " a strong image of Canada "; the portrait by Jean Paul Lemieux of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh that had for decades dominated the focal wall of the ballroom was shifted to the rear wall, thereby bumping the copy of George Hayter's state portrait of Queen Victoria that had hung there to the Tent Room, where the portraits of Canada's British governors general had been collected together.
Jersey number 66 was retired by the Pittsburgh Penguins ( National Hockey League ) in honor of Mario Lemieux.
At the Memorial Cup in Kitchener, Ottawa defeated the Laval Voisins, featuring Mario Lemieux, by a score 6-5 in their first game, then beat the Kamloops Jr. Oilers 5-1 in game two, before losing to Kitchener 7-2 to conclude the round-robin.
Air Hockey was invented by a group of Brunswick Billiards employees, including Bob Lemieux, from 1969 to 1972.
Belfour helped lead the Blackhawks to the Stanley Cup Finals in the 1991 – 92 season, where they eventually lost in 4 games to the Pittsburgh Penguins, led by Mario Lemieux.
However, they were ousted in six games in the second round by the eventual champions Pittsburgh Penguins led by Mario Lemieux.
Both districts are currently represented federally by Conservative MPs Guy Lauzon and Pierre Lemieux, and provincially by Conservative MPP Jim McDonell and Liberal MPP Grant Crack in Glengarry — Prescott — Russell.
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