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My Take
Claude Lemieux is my favorite kind of athlete: the one whose value only shows up when everything is on the line. Four Stanley Cups with multiple teams is not luck; it's a pattern, and the 1995 Conn Smythe Trophy made it official that playoff hockey was his natural habitat. Twenty-one NHL seasons as a right winger across six franchises speaks to durability as much as skill. I also like the second act, moving into work as a sports agent and putting two decades of hard-won knowledge in service of other players. Champions who keep contributing after the skates come off earn lasting respect from me.
Overview
Claude Percy Lemieux (July 16, 1965 – May 28, 2026) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played as a right winger for 21 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with six teams between 1983 and 2009. Lemieux won four Stanley Cup championships during his career, including two with the New Jersey Devils, with whom he won the Conn Smythe Trophy during the team's victory in the 1995 Stanley Cup Final.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Claude Lemieux
- Name (Japanese)
- クロード・ルミュー
- Reading
- くろーど・るみゅー
- Born
- July 16, 1965 (age 60)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Snake
- Origin
- Buckingham, Quebec, Canada
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 183 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- ice hockey player / sports agent
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- Stanley Cup
- 1995 Conn Smythe Trophy
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%20Lemieux
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.