2000-01 Topps ML repr #6 Mario Lemieux HOF BGS 8 POP 1

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2000-01 Topps ML repr #6 Mario Lemieux HOF BGS 8 POP 1:
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Mario Lemieux, OC, CQ (born October 5, 1965) is a former Canadianprofessional ice hockey player. He is acknowledged to be one of thebest players of all time. He played 17 seasons as a forward for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1984 and 2006. A gifted playmaker and fast skater despitehis large size, Lemieux often beat defencemenwith fakes and dekes. He is currently the Penguins\' principal owner and chairman of the board, having bought the teamout of bankruptcy in 1999. He is the only person ever to win the Stanley Cupas both a player and an owner.

Lemieux led Pittsburgh to two Stanley Cups in 1991 and 1992, won a Stanley Cup as a chairman in2009 with the Penguins, led 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 valuableplayer during the regular season, six ArtRoss Trophies as the league\'s leading scorer, and two Conn Smythe Trophies as playoff MVP. At the timeof his retirement, he was the NHL\'s seventh-ranked all-time scorer with 690goals and 1,033 assists. He is the NHL\'s all-time record-holder for goalsscored per game played, averaging 0.750 goals per game for his entire career. In2004, he was inducted into Canada\'s Walk of Fame. Playing only 915 outof a potential 1428 regular season NHL games, Lemieux\'s career was plagued byhealth problems. His numerous ailments included spinal disc herniation, Hodgkin\'s lymphoma, chronic tendinitisof a hip-flexor muscle, and chronic back painso severe that other people had to tie his skates. He has retired twice becauseof his health (and also missed an entire season because of it prior to hisfirst 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 lengthyabsences from the game, his play remained at a high level upon his return tothe ice; he won the Hart Trophy and scoring title in 1995–96 after sitting out the entire previousseason, and he was a finalist for the Hart when he made his comeback in 2000.

The Hockey Hall of Fame inducted Lemieuximmediately after his first retirement in 1997, waiving the normal three-yearwaiting period; upon his return in 2000, he became the third Hall of Famer(after GordieHowe and Guy Lafleur) to play after being inducted. Lemieux\'simpact on the NHL has been significant: Andrew Conte of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review calledhim the \"savior\" of the Pittsburgh Penguins, and after Lemieux\'sretirement, Wayne Gretzky commented that \"You don\'t replaceplayers like Mario Lemieux [...] The game will miss him.\" Bobby Orrcalled him \"the most talented player I\'ve ever seen.\" Orr, along withBryanTrottier and numerous fans, speculate that if Lemieux had not suffered somany issues with his health, his on-ice achievements would have been muchgreater.

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