Mario Lemieux went toe-to-toe with Wayne Gretzky, carried the Penguins to back-to-back Stanley Cups, and was chasing a 200-point season. Then, everything stopped. A shocking diagnosis changed his life, but what happened next became one of the greatest comebacks in sports history. How did Lemieux defy the odds and reclaim his throne? Watch to find out.
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Literally just doom scrolling through the shorts to find them in order lol
"and I took that personally"
Lemieux didn’t speak English when he was drafted. He learned it in Pittsburgh living with a local family. Stop making drama where these is none.
Oh….and he also did the small thing of winning back to back Stanley Cups in the early 90s