Claude Lemieux wasn't always the most popular player on the ice, but winning hockey games isn't a popularity contest. Few players understood that better than Lemieux.
It has now been nearly two months since Claude Lemieux passed away. We had seen him at the Bell Centre just three days earlier, when he carried the torch.
NHL legend Claude Lemieux relapsed into sex addiction prior to his suicide, according to statements his son gave to police officers following his death.
People love a good mid-round draft pick that pans out, and in the NHL you used to see those fairly often, but that’s obviously partially luck. If the Red Wings thought Nicklas Lidstrom was going to become a top-five defenseman in history, they wouldn’t have waited until the 53rd pick to take him.
In late May, the hockey community lost four-time Stanley Cup champion Claude Lemieux at the age of 60. Nearly two months later, new details about his death were shared with the public.
A year ago, Brandon Bussi had no idea where he would play and if it would even be in the NHL. Last night, he stifled the Vegas Golden Knights and guided the Carolina Hurricanes to a much-anticipated Stanley Cup clinching victory, 3-0.
The Carolina Hurricanes earned the Stanley Cup on Sunday night with a 3-0 shutout victory powered by goaltender Brandon Bussi to beat out the Vegas Golden Knights for the Cup in a six-game series.
Since the announcement of Claude Lemieux's passing, tributes have been pouring in from all corners of the hockey world. The more people talk about him, the more we discover little-known facets of his personality.
Former New York Rangers forward Brendan Lemieux posted an official family statement on behalf of his mother, two brothers, and sister on his social media accounts Saturday, two days after his father, four-time Stanley Cup champion Claude Lemieux, committed suicide.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
A close friend of longtime NHL star Claude Lemieux is speaking out on his death this week. Lemieux, one of the best players in NHL history, died this week.
The family of Claude Lemieux released a statement on Saturday night, announcing that they will be donating the four-time Stanley Cup champion’s brain to the UNITE Brain Bank to study the long-term effects of traumatic brain injuries and repetitive head impacts.
There’s no easy way to boil Claude Lemieux’s life down into a single, short sentiment. He’s a legend to the New Jersey Devils, Colorado Avalanche, and Montreal Canadiens, both in terms of their former players and long-time fans.
The death of Claude Lemieux in recent days has shocked the hockey world, especially Montreal Canadiens fans, as he had just carried the torch during Game 3 on Wednesday.
The NHL world is mourning the passing of four-time Stanley Cup champion Claude Lemieux, who tragically died by an apparent suicide at the age of 60 earlier this week.
Yesterday afternoon, the hockey world received the sad news of Claude Lemieux's passing. It touched the entire hockey community—and rightly so. It's been the talk of Montreal because of Lemieux's impact with the Canadiens during his time here, but also because he carried the torch on Monday night.
Lemieux was selected at No. 26 overall by the Canadiens in the 1983 NHL Draft, and he played with the franchise until 1990, including being part of the Stanley Cup-winning team in 1986.
During his NHL career, former Montreal Canadiens forward Claude Lemieux was an agitator who would play with the boundaries of what was legal or not to get under his opponents’ skin, but his impact in playoff hockey sometimes goes unnoticed.