Claude Lemieux

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 until his death in May 2026 at sixty. Champions who keep contributing after the skates come off earn lasting respect from me.

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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 – May 28, 2026

Origin

Buckingham, Quebec, Canada

Height

183 cm

Occupation

ice hockey player / sports agent

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Snake

Awards & achievements

• Stanley Cup
• 1995 Conn Smythe Trophy

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%20Lemieux
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q974567

Tags

• Quebec
• ice hockey player
• sports agent

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.