Former Canadian hockey player Claude Lemieux, four-time Stanley Cup winner, died at the age of 60. The NHL Alumni Association informed about it on Thursday. Lemieux still carried the torch at the Bell Center on Monday night before Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals between the Montreal Canadiens and the Carolina Hurricanes.
He played 21 seasons in the overseas competition, enjoying overall triumphs twice with New Jersey and once with the Canadiens and Colorado Avalanche. According to the information of the American portal you reached for life. The well-known hockey player was found by his son at approximately 03:00 a.m. in the premises of a family furniture company. The family started looking for him after he didn’t return home and they were worried about him. The NHL veteran’s body was discovered in the back of the warehouse.
Lemieux ended his rich NHL career in 2009. He played for six clubs as a winger. He was selected by Montreal in the second round of the 1983 draft, with whom he also won his first Stanley Cup three years later. He continued with New Jersey in 1995 and a year later with Colorado. He claimed the last overall triumph again in the Devils team in 2000. Doveda played 1215 games in the regular season, in which he collected 786 points (379+407).
However, fans remember him best for his playoff performances. He was one of the best players of the knockout stage in the entire history of the competition, but at the same time he was also among the toughest. With 80 goals, he is in 9th place in the table of scorers in the playoffs. The third place belongs to him in the statistics of penalty minutes during the battles for the Stanley Cup (529). After the end of his career, he became an agent of NHL players. He was the father of four children, including longtime NHL player Brendan.
