Claude Lemieux, a feisty winger and four-time Stanley Cup champion, dies at 60

Claude Lemieux, a four-time Stanley Cup champion whose hockey career was built on playing on the edge with ferocity and physicality, has died.

Claude Lemieux, a four-time Stanley Cup champion whose hockey career was built on playing on the edge with ferocity and physicality, has died. He was 60.

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The NHL Alumni Association announced Lemieux’s death in a post on social media. A cause of death was not immediately available, nor was it clear where Lemieux was when he died.

Lemieux was the Montreal Canadiens’ torchbearer Monday night before Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Final at Bell Centre.