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Block UserAfter seventeen years, Mario Lemiuex calls his career off. It was definitely a tough skate battling with lymphoma, back pain and losses for Mario who spent his entire career with the Pittsburgh Penguins. ''The time is right because I can no longer play the game at the level I'm accustomed to,'' a sullen Lemieux said during his retirement speech. Mario is a champion who knows how to succeed. Now his biggest challenge is tending to the Pens possible sale and the prospects of acquiring a new arena. It might just happen for the future stronghold of the likes of Sidney Crosby, Marc-Andr
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The Day I Met Mario Lemieux
Wednesday, January 25, 2006, 02:17 PM EST
[NHL, Mario Lemiuex, hockey, Pe]
Racing through the corridors of the United Center, a 5 year old boy with a jersey hanging down to the floor pinched Mr. Lemieux's pants. His father asked Mr. Lemieux for a photograph and he clearly obliged. It was a cell phone photo, nothing special, just a snapshot you would take in a hurry. But at the end, the snapshot meant the world for the little hockey fan smiling excitedly. The photo was a present, a memoir of the legacy of the man who is Mario Lemieux.
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