Mario Lemieux

Ivan Miroshnichenko talks about his cancer diagnosis, being inspired by a conversation with Mario Lemieux, and his return to hockey

Washington Capitals 2022 first-round draft selection Ivan Miroshnichenko is off to a blazing hot start in Russia since returning from Hodgkin’s lymphoma treatment. The 18-year-old sniper has scored in five straight MHL games and recorded eight points (6 goals, 2 assists) in his first six games back.

The top prospect sat down with the Russian outlet Match TV’s Pavel Lysenkov and talked about a variety of topics including his return, his cancer journey, and his conversation with NHL legend Mario Lemieux.

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By Chris Cerullo 1 week ago

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Report: Penguins’ Ron Burkle and Mario Lemieux close to selling team to Fenway Sports Group

The Fenway Sports Group that owns the Boston Red Sox is nearing a deal to buy the Pittsburgh Penguins from Ron Burkle and Mario Lemieux. The news was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

Burkle and Lemieux have owned the Penguins since 1999, but have been rumored to be looking to sell in recent years.

The Capitals beat the Penguins 6-1 on Sunday which reportedly made Lemieux “distraught.”

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By Ian Oland 1 year ago

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Not-so-humble Mario Lemieux shows off full trophy case while putting on Penguins’ first Reverse Retro jersey

Mario Lemieux, who is looking more and more like Wayne Gretzky by the day, received the first Pittsburgh Penguins Reverse Retro jersey in the mail today.

The Penguins’ owner and Hockey Hall of Famer tried it on in the most ostentatious place in his house: his lit-up trophy display.

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By Ian Oland 2 years ago

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Steve Yzerman, Mark Messier, and Teemu Selanne have congratulated Alex Ovechkin on passing them in goals. Mario Lemieux hasn’t.

Mario Lemieux hasn’t said “congratulations” to Alex Ovechkin for moving up the all-time goal list and bumping him out of the Top Ten. It probably just slipped his mind.

Grocery shopping, buying new suits that are too long in the arms, re-gelling his hair–the man’s busy!

In other news, here are the hockey Hall of Famers who found the time in their busy schedules to say congrats to Ovi:

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By Brennin Weiswerda 3 years ago

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Alex Ovechkin ties ‘one of my idols’ Mario Lemieux for 10th all-time in goals

Alex Ovechkin scored on former teammate Semyon Varlamov for his sixth goal in the last three games. Newly-resigned Nicklas Backstrom had the primary assist.

The goal, Ovechkin’s 32nd of the season, gave the Russian machine 690 for his career, tying him with Mario Lemieux for tenth on the NHL’s all-time goals list.

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By Ian Oland 3 years ago

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Alex Ovechkin takes photos with Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, and Sidney Crosby after NHL’s Top 100 Ceremony

After being named one of the top 100 players of all-time, Alex Ovechkin spoke to reporters. He called it the biggest honor of his career.

“To be in this company, it’s incredible,” Ovechkin said to CSN Mid-Atlantic’s Tarik El-Bashir. “All the legends – and you’re one of them. It’s unbelievable.”

Ovechkin then mingled and took photographs with, as he described it, the “best of the best.”

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By Ian Oland 6 years ago

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Alex Ovechkin Nominated for Sixth Ted Lindsay Award As NHL’s “Most Outstanding Player”

Photo credit: @NHL

Late last month, Alex Ovechkin was nominated for the Hart Memorial Trophy has the NHL’s “most valuable” player as voted on by members of the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association.

Now, Ovechkin has been recognized as a finalist for the version selected by his peers. Along with Carey Price and Jamie Benn, Ovi is one of three players who could take home the Ted Lindsay Award as the league’s “most outstanding player” at the NHL’s postseason awards show in Las Vegas. This is Ovechkin’s sixth Lindsay Award nomination after winning the award three years in a row from 2008-2010. Only Wayne Gretzky, with five wins, and Mario Lemieux, with four, have won more the award more times since it was established in 1971.

Below, here’s the press release from the Capitals.

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By Chris Gordon 8 years ago

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Photo credit: Geoff Burke/USA Today Sports

Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin probably won’t hit 50 goals in 50 games. Even with his four-goal night against the Tampa Bay Lightning the other night, his chances of hitting 50 goals in his last 50 regular season games seems unlikely. Going by the NHL standard (and arbitrary) definition of 50 goals in a team’s first 50 games of a season, it’s even more unlikely.

But that shouldn’t lessen what he’s is doing right now. Ovechkin’s 2013-14 season could be historic yet.

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By 9 years ago

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This is a Garage League and Other Lockout Lessons

I guess it’s appropriate to start by saying that we’re all unimaginably happy about the return of hockey. That said, we’ve learned a lot over the four-month lockout, and this seems like the appropriate time to take stock.

Lesson 1: Mario Lemieux was right

The NHL is a garage league. I’m not talking about riff-raff players spoiling up the staid finesse hockey of a bygone era; I’m talking about business competence. Since my adolescence, the NHL has lost part or all of three seasons. Fans who have been following hockey for a decade have seen 20% of that time obscured or obliterated by lockouts.

Imagine running a business where you do work 80% of the time. The rest of the time you’re struggling to master a skill most functionally social humans learn in kindergarten: sharing. Your business plan is flawed.

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By Peter Hassett 10 years ago

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Old Man Knuble

Photo credit: Chris Gordon

A 24-year-old Mike Knuble, then a promising forward prospect, played nine games for the Detroit Red Wings during the 1996-97 season.

Players who were still playing during Knuble’s first season in the NHL include Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Patrick Roy, Dominik Hasek, Steve Yzerman, Brett Hull, Mark Messier, Dino Ciccarelli, Brian Leetch, Grant Fuhr, and Ron Hextall.

Just days after Knuble’s first game, Phil Collins announced that he was leaving Genesis to focus on his solo career, M.C. Hammer wasn’t yet bankrupt, and it would be months before The Daily Show debuts on Comedy Central.

I guess what I am trying to say is Knuble is ~~old~~ getting up there in years, but don’t tell him that.

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By 11 years ago

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