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Mario Lemieux OC CQ (/ l ə ˈ m j uː /; French:; born October 5, 1965) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played parts of 17 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Pittsburgh Penguins between 1984 and 2005, and he assumed ownership of the franchise in 1999.
Maurice "Rocket" Richard recorded the first eight-point game in league history. Mario Lemieux recorded three eight-point games. Wayne Gretzky had two eight-point games. Sam Gagner is the most recent NHL player to score an eight-point game. This is a list of players who have scored eight or more points in a National Hockey League game. Scoring ...
Mario Lemieux is the only player in history to achieve a five-goal game by scoring in five different ways – on December 31, 1988, he scored an even-strength goal, a power-play goal, a short-handed goal, a penalty shot goal and an empty net goal against the New Jersey Devils. [3]
While Gretzky would surpass each of the 160 through 190-point thresholds multiple times, only one other player has ever reached those marks – Mario Lemieux. It is only at the 150-point threshold that a few other players (four) have joined those two players: the six players to achieve or surpass a 150-point season are Wayne Gretzky (nine times ...
Most points, one playoff game: Patrik Sundstrom (April 22, 1988) and Mario Lemieux (April 25, 1989), 8; Most points, one playoff home game: Patrik Sundstrom (April 22, 1988) and Mario Lemieux (April 25, 1989), 8; Most points, one period: Bryan Trottier (December 23, 1978) and Mika Zibanejad (March 17, 2021), 6
The fewest NHL games required to reach the mark was 424, set by Wayne Gretzky.Second quickest was Mario Lemieux, achieving the mark in his 513th game.In a sense, Gretzky was the fastest and the second fastest, as he scored his second 1,000 points (the NHL's only player ever to score 2,000 points in regular-season play) only 433 games after scoring his first 1,000 points.
The 1983–84 QMJHL season was the 15th season in the history of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.Eleven teams played 70 games each in the regular season. Mario Lemieux of the Laval Voisins scored 133 goals, and had 149 assists, setting the all-time Canadian Hockey League record of 282 points, and 133 goals in a regular season.
Mario Lemieux's return to the NHL after missing the entire 1994–95 season energized the Penguins and re-instituted the team's finesse game for the 1995–96 season.The Penguins finished second in the Eastern Conference with 102 points, leading all League teams in goals (362), even-strength goals (235), power-play goals (109), power-play percentage (25.95%) and shooting percentage while ...