| rdfs:comment | - Mario Lemieux, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec (born October 5, 1965) is a former Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played 17 seasons as a forward for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1984 and 2005. Lemieux was a gifted playmaker and fast skater, despite his large size and strength. Lemieux often beat defencemen with fakes and dekes. He is currently the Penguins' principal owner and chairman of the board, having bought the team out of bankruptcy in 1999. He is the only person ever to win the Stanley Cup as both a player and an owner.
- Mario Lemieux (Montreal, Quebec, October 5, 1965) is a former Canadian ice hockey player. Mario Lemieux started his career in 1984 at the Pittsburgh Penguins, which at the time was the worst club in the NHL . He helped the club building and together with teammates he knew in both 1991 and 1992 to win the Stanley Cup . Over the years received many individual awards and he grew from Lemieux itself to a legend in the sport. During his career he acquired several nicknames such as "Super Mario", "The Magnificent One" and "Le Magnifique".
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| abstract | - Mario Lemieux (Montreal, Quebec, October 5, 1965) is a former Canadian ice hockey player. Mario Lemieux started his career in 1984 at the Pittsburgh Penguins, which at the time was the worst club in the NHL . He helped the club building and together with teammates he knew in both 1991 and 1992 to win the Stanley Cup . Over the years received many individual awards and he grew from Lemieux itself to a legend in the sport. Lemieux overcame Cancer In 1993 and he could continue his career, however, in 1996, he was forced to stop because of serious back problems. Four years later he made his comeback, after which he got in 2006 cardiac arrhythmias and on 40-year-old age again was forced to stop. During his career he acquired several nicknames such as "Super Mario", "The Magnificent One" and "Le Magnifique". Mario Lemieux scored his first goal of the bank directly when he came with his first shot in his first shift, during his first NHL game on October 11, 1984. The Boston Bruins won the match 4-3, but the career of one of the greatest in the sport had begun. At his retirement on 26 april 1997, he scored during his last shift in his last game and also had an assist in the lost game against the Philadelphia Flyers. He played his very last race on december 16, 2005 against the Buffalo Sabres. In this match he scored, but he was good for an assist. In total he scored Lemieux 690 runs and had 1033 assists in his NHL career over 915 matches. He played 107 thereof in play-off related, in it he he scored 76 runs and had 96 assists. During the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Canada won the Gold Medal with Lemieux. Today, he is joint owner of the Penguins and he takes care of during the season about the new superstar Sidney Crosby. Statistics[Edit] season club country competition wed. goals assist 1984/85 Pittsburgh Penguins Vlag van Verenigde Staten United States NHL 73 43 57 1985/86 Pittsburgh Penguins Vlag van Verenigde Staten United States NHL 79 48 93 1986/87 Pittsburgh Penguins Vlag van Verenigde Staten United States NHL 63 54 53 1987/88 Pittsburgh Penguins Vlag van Verenigde Staten United States NHL 77 70 98 1988/89 Pittsburgh Penguins Vlag van Verenigde Staten United States NHL 76 85 114 1989/90 Pittsburgh Penguins Vlag van Verenigde Staten United States NHL 59 45 78 1990/91 Pittsburgh Penguins Vlag van Verenigde Staten United States NHL 26 19 26 1991/92 Pittsburgh Penguins Vlag van Verenigde Staten United States NHL 64 44 87 1992/93 Pittsburgh Penguins Vlag van Verenigde Staten United States NHL 60 69 91 1993/94 Pittsburgh Penguins Vlag van Verenigde Staten United States NHL 22 17 20 1994/95 Pittsburgh Penguins Vlag van Verenigde Staten United States NHL 0 0 0 1995/96 Pittsburgh Penguins Vlag van Verenigde Staten United States NHL 70 69 92 1996/97 Pittsburgh Penguins Vlag van Verenigde Staten United States NHL 76 50 72 2000/01 Pittsburgh Penguins Vlag van Verenigde Staten United States NHL 43 35 41 2001/02 Pittsburgh Penguins Vlag van Verenigde Staten United States NHL 24 6 25 2002/03 Pittsburgh Penguins Vlag van Verenigde Staten United States NHL 67 28 63 2003/04 Pittsburgh Penguins Vlag van Verenigde Staten United States NHL 10 1 8 2004/05 Pittsburgh Penguins Vlag van Verenigde Staten United States NHL 0 0 0 2005/06 Pittsburgh Penguins Vlag van Verenigde Staten United States NHL 26 7 15 Total 915 690 1033 Updated 19-02-2010
- Mario Lemieux, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec (born October 5, 1965) is a former Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played 17 seasons as a forward for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1984 and 2005. Lemieux was a gifted playmaker and fast skater, despite his large size and strength. Lemieux often beat defencemen with fakes and dekes. He is currently the Penguins' principal owner and chairman of the board, having bought the team out of bankruptcy in 1999. He is the only person ever to win the Stanley Cup as both a player and an owner. Lemieux led Pittsburgh to two Stanley Cups in 1991 and 1992, Canada to an Olympic gold medal in 2002, a championship at the 2004 World Cup of Hockey and a Canada Cup in 1987. He won three Hart Trophies as the NHL's most valuable player during the regular season, six Art Ross Trophies as the league's leading scorer, and two Conn Smythe Trophies as playoff MVP. At the time of his retirement, he was the NHL's seventh-ranked all-time scorer with 690 goals and 1,033 assists. In 2004, he was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. Playing only 915 out of a potential 1428 regular season NHL games, Lemieux's career was plagued by health problems. His numerous ailments included spinal disc herniation, Hodgkin's lymphoma, chronic tendinitis of a hip-flexor muscle, and chronic back pain so severe that other people had to tie his skates. He has retired twice because of his health (and also missed an entire season because of it prior to his first retirement): first in 1997 after battling lymphoma (he returned in 2000), and for a second and final time in 2006, after being diagnosed with an atrial fibrillation. Despite his lengthy absences from the game, his play remained at a high level upon his return to the ice; he won the Hart Trophy and scoring title in 1995–96 after sitting out the entire previous season, and he was a finalist for the Hart when he made his comeback in 2000. Lemieux was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame immediately after his first retirement, waiving the normal three-year waiting period; upon his return in 2000, he became the third Hall of Famer (after Gordie Howe and Guy Lafleur) to play after being inducted. Lemieux's impact on the NHL has been significant: Andrew Conte of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review called him the "savior" of the Pittsburgh Penguins, and after Lemieux's retirement, Wayne Gretzky commented that "You don't replace players like Mario Lemieux [...] The game will miss him." Bobby Orr called him "the most talented player I've ever seen." Orr, along with Bryan Trottier and numerous fans, speculate that if Lemieux had not suffered so many issues with his health, his on-ice achievements would have been much greater.
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