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...Mario Lemieux's return to hockey. The heir to the Great One met his biggest challenge. In the midst of his greatest season, on pace to break Gretzky's single season scoring record, Lemieux was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. But just six weeks later he was back on the Igloo ice in Pittsburgh, and he scored a goal. Lemieux went on to win the scoring title, garner some more personal awards, and add thousands to his fan club...
...that has a familiar ring, it's because Howard Baldwin, the chairman of the National Hockey League's Pittsburgh Penguins, is the head of a group that paid the Russian army $1.2 million last June for a stake in the team. (Among the other investors: N.H.L. star Mario Lemieux and actor Michael J. Fox.) The Penguins, from their new $200 jerseys -- a hip, hockey-playing bird has replaced the hammer-and-sickle motif -- to the circus performers and striptease acts between periods, are Russia's first glimpse at the American custom of big-time sports mixed with even bigger-time...
...National Hockey League is certainly the closest. You have Gretzky, Lemieux and then take your pick. Maybe Bourque. Patrick Roy some might argue. Outside of Boston, Gretzky is considered the best ever. He has transcended the game...
Despite his injuries, Lemieux is at most half a forecheck behind the Great One. But Bourque, (sorry Boston) though the best defender of this generation, wouldn't get any serious consideration as the best ever. Neither would Roy. These two aren't even the best of their decade...
With his Hodgkin's disease in remission, National Hockey League star Mario Lemieux rejoined his Pittsburgh Penguins team on the ice last week, just two months after discovering that he was battling the lymph cancer. The raucous standing ovation the 27-year-old star received no doubt bolstered his spirits after he'd persevered through eight weeks of radiation therapy. Lemieux scored one goal and assisted on another, proving that even when he has to hang up his skates for a while, the league's premier skater still knows how to keep his edge...