The Lemieux Library was founded in 1991.

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 ).

Ghost towns may also occasionally come into being due to an anticipated natural disaster – for example, the Canadian town of Lemieux, Ontario was abandoned in 1991 after soil testing revealed that the community was built on an unstable bed of Leda clay.

Two years after the last building in Lemieux was demolished, a landslide swept part of the former town-site into the South Nation River.

Mario Lemieux, one of the most highly touted NHL draft picks in history, was due to be drafted in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft.

Pittsburgh coach Lou Angotti later admitted that a conscious decision was made to finish the season as the team with the worst record, stating in an interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that a mid-season lunch prompted the plan, in light of the fact that there was a high chance of the franchise folding if Lemieux was not drafted.

Cancer revisited the Penguins in 1993, when Lemieux was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease.

Lemieux was so respected in the league, and his achievements over the course of his career were so great, that he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in the same year as he retired, the three-year waiting period being waived.

The 2003-04 season was a difficult ordeal, with Lemieux suffering a season-ending hip injury early in the season, and attendance dipping to an average of 11, 877 ( the lowest average out of any NHL team ) and only one game sold out.

On the Penguins ' final game of the season, Crosby scored a goal and an assist to become the top scoring rookie in Penguins history with 102 points ( eclipsing Lemieux ), despite losing the rookie scoring race to Russian superstar Ovechkin, who, unlike Malkin, was also set to debut that season, been able to make his way to the NHL.

During Game 6, Red Wings player Kris Draper was checked into the boards face-first by Avalanche player Claude Lemieux.

Claude Lemieux was one of the players singled out by the Red Wings players.

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.

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.

He was born the same day as Mario Lemieux, 200 kilometers apart, from Montreal.

Koivu received large numbers of get-well e-mails and letters from fans and was also in touch with Mario Lemieux, John Cullen, and Lance Armstrong ; all athletes who had beaten cancer and made successful returns to their respective sports.

Magazine, Brian Compton listed the 10 best captains of all-time since Steve Yzerman was first named captain of the Detroit Red Wings in 1986 ; Koivu was included in the article in the 10th place, behind the likes of Mark Messier and Mario Lemieux.

Other teams offered substantial trade packages for the draft choice, but the Penguins kept the pick and drafted Lemieux first overall.

He was drafted second overall by the New Jersey Devils in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft behind Mario Lemieux.

The most famous player that has come through the organization would undoubtedly be Mario Lemieux, who was drafted in 1984 by the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League ( NHL ).

For only the second time in his NHL career, Gretzky finished second in scoring, but narrowly beat out Pittsburgh's Mario Lemieux ( who scored 199 points ) for the Hart Trophy as MVP.

After losing the first game of a best-of-three final series against the Soviets, Gretzky propelled Canada with a five-assist performance in the second game, including the game-winning pass to Lemieux in overtime, to extend the tournament.

The league and the court agreed, and Lemieux, with help from supermarket tycoon Ronald Burkle, assumed control on September 3, 1999 — thus saving the franchise for the second time.

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.

Then on January 24, 2006, Lemieux announced his second retirement, this time for good, after developing an irregular heart beat.

However, they were ousted in six games in the second round by the eventual champions Pittsburgh Penguins led by Mario Lemieux.

His 1. 18 points-per-game average ranked second in the league behind Mario Lemieux, who played 48 fewer games than Bertuzzi.

He played on the second offensive unit with winger Jaromír Jágr and centre Ron Francis during training camp before being moved up to the first line with Mario Lemieux.

He won his only Vezina Trophy as the NHL's top goaltender that year and finished second in voting for the Hart Memorial Trophy as league MVP, behind Mario Lemieux and ahead of teammate Wayne Gretzky.

Justice Francois Lemieux ruled ruled in March 2007 that the Martin government acted improperly in 2005 when it fired Pelletier a second time, immediately after a court overturned his first dismissal as head of Via Rail, stating that Lapierre was biased and failed to follow proper procedures.

Justice Francois Lemieux ruled that then-Transport Minister Jean Lapierre, who fired Pelletier the second time, was biased and failed to follow proper procedures.

The trade became a coup for Pittsburgh, where he centred a formidable second line behind Mario Lemieux, as the Penguins won their first Stanley Cup less than three months later.

He came second to Mario Lemieux for the Calder Memorial Trophy.

Lemieux won his second Stanley Cup in 1995 as New Jersey defeated the Detroit Red Wings.

Lemieux also had a reputation as one of the league's dirtiest players ; in fact, a recent ESPN special entitled " The Top 10 Most Hated NHL Players of All Time " ranked Claude second, behind only Sean Avery.

Lemieux finished the tournament with 3 goals and 2 assist in 6 games to help Canada win its second World Junior gold medal.

With his chippy demeanor still intact, Lemieux picked up 19 penalty minutes in the eight games as Canada finished second.

In 2007, Lemieux took part in the second season of the Spike TV television show Pros vs. Joes.

Soon after the race, the jury of the International Yacht Racing Union unanimously decided that Lemieux should be awarded second place, the position he was in when he went to the aid of the Singapore crew.

In his first season, he coached the team, which was led by superstar Mario Lemieux, to a 1991 Stanley Cup Finals championship victory over the Minnesota North Stars, four games to two, becoming the second American-born coach to win it and the first in 53 years.

Its federal MP is Conservative Pierre Lemieux, a former military engineer, who is serving his second term.

After the Blackhawks jumped to an early 4 – 1 lead in Game 1, Mario Lemieux and the Penguins came back to win the game, sweep the series in four games, and win their second straight and second overall Stanley Cup.