Claude Lemieux, Four-Time Cup Winner And NHL Villain, Dies

Claude Lemieux carved out one of the NHL’s more unforgettable careers, winning the Stanley Cup with Colorado and two other teams while leaving a trail of grit, goals and grudges. He was the kind of player every room respected and every opponent remembered, which in this league is its own strange kind of immortality. The news marks the loss of a four-time champion whose name still carries weight whenever people talk about playoff-edge hockey and hard-nosed winners.