Claude Lemieux’s Death Stings For Two Painful Reasons, Friends Say

Claude Lemieux’s death is hitting hard because the grief around him runs in two directions at once. Close friends say the pain is tied to two deeply personal wounds that never really let up, even after the spotlight moved on. In hockey, legacies are usually measured in rings, grudges, and goals, but sometimes the longest shadow is the one left by what a man carried off the ice. This is one of those stories where the human toll matters more than the box score ever did.