I'm a Rangers fan & was at this game. We were watching the Rangers choke away a playoff spot a year after being the Presidents Trophy Winners. It was depressing as hell. At the time, the idea that 1994 might finally bring us that joyous moment we'd been waiting for for so long never entered our minds. Since it did, I can look back on this game & smile. Me & my friend never left our seats. We stayed the whole game. As much as we hated to see NY lose, we felt honored to have witnessed this.
what a fucking beast. the guy was huge and fast to boot. a defensemen's true nightmare. and this is coming from someone who doesn't even like the pens.
Its amazing to wonder how good he would have been if he wasnt playing with half a hip, no back and only one knee... plus the who cancer thing.
Best player who could only ever play at 70% due to alll the health issues that ruined him physically. Not being able to even tie his skates or get over the boards. he had to pull his legs up over the boards using his arms. He had to have teammates pull him and give him pushes, In one playoff game he was crying on the bench in agony,
Was lucky to be at this game, still have stub (Sec 425, Row E). Ranger fans hated him as he always scored 2 goals to kill the Rangers. First 2 goals, he got booed...... Hat trick, got some cheers. 4th goal, fans cheered it like a Ranger had scored. 5th goal, standing ovation, then the 1-2-3-4-5 we want 6 chant. We knew we were witnessing hockey history, great player at his best. He sure was Super Mario that night.
Coming from someone with WeTrustChrist as their name.....that means little. Gretzky avoided cancer and a fucked up back yet Mario still averaged a higher PPG then Gretzky and half his career he played with a bunch of cans. Tell that to your false Deity.
@WeTrustChrist your a complete idiot. Pray to god to give you half a brain. Lemieux was 10 times the player gretzky was. Lemieux didnt have an all-star team around him to help out. He did it all himself. If lemieux played as many games as wayne, Your poor gretzky wouldnt have a record left!
@drumhak lemieux had a great cast of players around him. the two years that they won the cup, lemieux played around 60 games combined. if those teams were poor, they would have never come close to the playoffs let along repeated a stanley cup. lemieux was extremely important and certainly a great player, but to say he didn't play on good teams is wrong.
No. Corey Hirsch started and gave up the first 5 goals I believe. Richter replaced Hirsch in the third and gave up the rest. Vanbiesbrouck was also on their roster at the time but he was away due to a death in his family I believe.
Umm...Nope. Even as a Pens fan, I have to admit that will never, ever happen. No road team's fans will ever cheer Crosby for a 7 or 8 point night. Just bc of his name and not bc of his achievement. Ridiculous, but true.
haha 10-3 penguins , yes the announcer is right the rangers are desperate, was it 10 all on richter, its funny they retire the jersey of a mediocore goalie
ur just lookin for trouble with that comment hah, Richter mediocre, nope, everyone can hava a bad game, especially against that era Penguin team...think Corey Hirsch allowed a couple too.
wow ur a dickhead mario did make every goalie look mediocre but richter was not a bad goalie at all and also in the 80s and early 90s it was ridicuolously easier to score goals than it is now so high scores were waaaaaay mor common than today
Why does everybody have to drag into the Lemieux/Gretzky thing? Gretzky would have great no matter who played with, just like Lemieux. The Oilers just constucted a better team faster, and Gretzky is older then Lemieux. I do think that if Mario had the health that Gretzky had over his career, their numbers were be very close. Mario was a better goal scorer, Gretzky was a better assist man. Both were great players, probably the two best their game and country ever produced.
he never played a full season, he had dog shit for teammates until 1990.thats 6 years with no help. gretzkey played with 8 hall of famers. there really is no comparasion. he was the only player ever to average more than 2pts. a game until he came out of retirement. just to show you what a bad ass he was new york fans really give an opposing player a standing ovation, that was the only time i can remember agreeing with a ranger fan.lol...
@bern1417 He had Paul Coffey, Dan Quinn, John Cullen and Rob Brown from 87-90. Not a bad supporting cast for the time. Ever looked at Wayne's first 2 years? He hardly had help himself. Wasn't till the mid-80s that everyone else had caught up closer to Wayne's level on Edmonton. Wayne scored 137 points as a teenager with linemates like Don Ashby, Blair MacDonald and Brett Callighen, much like Lemieux got 100 with mediocrities like Bob Errey, Doug Shedden and Warren Young. Apples n oranges.
@journeythruthepast Are you stone cold fucking nuts to compare the talent Wayne Gretzky had to work with to the trash Lemieux had? Lemieux's first three years in the league he had absolutely nothing to work with, Gretzky on the other hand in his first three years, had Messier, Anderson and Coffey, those guys were 100 point producers in the first 3 years of Gretzky. Name a single Penguin that had 50 goals or 100 points in the first 3 years of Lemieux's career.
Wasn't till year three that any of those guys did anything worth spit. And still, Wayne won two harts and a scoring title. And he still had 42 more goals and 108 more points than the next best player on Edmonton that 3rd year. He has Mario beat for years 3-6 of their careers in terms of surrounding talent for sure but before their prime he carried that his team much like Mario had to. Wayne was better from 18-22 years of age than Mario at the same ages. Helped that Gretz had more pro experience.
@leez92 Messier had 12 goals then 22 before getting 50 in 81-82, Anderson was a good rookie in 80-81 but no better than Warren Young was for Mario. Wayne had no established scorer on his first 2 seasons. At least Mario had former 50 goal men Mike Bullard and Wayne Babych. Look up the 79-81 Oiler stats and you'll find the future stars were still moulding into form and the rest was crap that Wayne made look good. The idea Gretzky always had stars by his side is a myth.
@journeythruthepast Its not worth arguing with someone that thinks Dan Quin, John Cullen, and Rob Brown, were ever on the same level as Mark Messier, Glenn Anderson, and Jari Kurri, at any point in their careers.
@leez92 I never said that! God you're reading what you want to read. That's ludicrous. Why do you have to get so testy with me? I just said that it's a myth Gretzky always had superior support to work with. Only from 1981-88 and don't tell me the Kings teams Gretzky was on had more talent than the Pens of the late 80s and beyond. The 87-90 Pens weren't awful but nowhere close to the Oilers. But after 1990, Lemieux's teams were almost always more talented than the ones Gretzky played on.
You're right to a point, but Wayne's first year he had nobody. Messier wasn't even on his line, plus Messier wasn't even close to an impact player yet. His linemates were Brett Callighen and Blair McDonald. Ring a bell? I didn't think so. Coffey, Anderson and Kurri did not debut until 80-81. In Lemieux's first season he didn't have much. Doug Shedden and Mike Bullard maybe, but those players were established scorers while Gretzky's linemates were unknowns.
Whatever advantage Wayne had from 84-85 through 87-88 no longer existed once Wayne got traded to LA and the Pens started to get more talented players from within and outside the organization. Having said that, one could make the argument Mario was as good as Wayne.
He might have beaten Gretzky's record of 92 goals in a season, cause he got 85 in 1988-89. And he might've beaten Gretzky's record of 215 points cause he got 199 in 1988-89. And he was only twenty-four then.
That is as remarkable a goal as I've ever seen. I was at that game. It was just unbelievable. As far as Lemieux being the greatest ever, I still say Gtetzky is number one. Not by a lot. Gretzky did one thing that Lemieux would never have done even if he had stayed healthy. He had 162 assists in a season. 1985-86. That's more than 2 assists per game!!!!
That game was such an embarassment. The Rangers were so bad in that game. A game they HAD TO win. We Rangers fans were giving him a standing O because we wanted the Rangers to feel as bad as they could possibly feel about sucking so bad in a game that was so important. That game started the Rangers towards thinking of next year. Which was finally OUR YEAR. 1994.
that was really classy when they gave him a standing ovation after what lemieux went through that year. rangers are my 2nd favorite team behind the pens
The above are Gretzky's and Lemieux's career totals in games, goals, assists, points. Lemieux played 572 fewer games,scored 294 fewer goals, 930 fewer assists, 1,134 fewer points. If he had played as many games as Gretzky he would've had to have averaged almost two points a game for those 572 games. That would've been tough to do.
wow, do you realize the adversity that lemieux had to face in his entire career? Gretzky had no adversity to face. How well do you think Gretzky would have done faced with the same trials as Lemieux? Gretzky was great, second best even, don't get me wrong, Lemieux was just better.
I do realize that Lemieux had a lot of adversity to face. I was not minimizing what he did at all nor do I minimize what he had to face. There's just no way of knowing what would've happened. Adversities are part of life. I always loved him as a player.
Part of why I hate Lemieux/Gretzky debates is how people take it as gospel that Lemieux would've destroyed- not just surpassed but destroyed!?- all of Wayne's marks if healthy. Assists even? Naah. Problem is, Mario was injury prone from the day he started junior. And adversity? Sure Mario faced more but 2 can play that game. Look at Wayne in the '93 playoffs at 32 after a herniated disc scare that year. Mario was retired at that age, his body couldn't take it as well as Wayne's.
@thetaxidermist He was also 6'5/230 with big reach to Wayne's 5'11/180. Lemieux could outperform and outskill anyone, Gretzky used his smarts and unmatchable hockey sense. They're like comparing apples and oranges but so many debates prop up one while slamming the other. If I can say anything negative about Mario it was he was brittle. But he more than made up for that with his play when healthy and his ability to dominate even when in terrible pain. But Bobby Orr did it first, hehe.
@journeythruthepast The bottom line is that the league your watching today has the best players. Bobby Orr is a 2011 D-man who dropped into the 1970's. My guess is that if you put Lemieux, Gretz and Orr into today's game they would look something Rick Nash, Henrik Sedin and Drew Doughty respectively. In today's game everybody is scrutinized, micromanaged etc.... Look at Lemieux's goal against the North Stars in the Cup Final, NO top 2 defenseman in today's game would get undressed like that.
@shivakrishnarama But a player can adapt to the changing league and the training methods throughout his career. When Lemieux started back in 1984, it was easier to undress the d-men because even good teams only had 2 or 3 that could skate backwards with any efficiency. But in 2001, he was still making the elites look silly and after a 3 year retirement no less. You can't deny superhuman talent. But generally I agree with you. In 30 years what Crosby or OV did to goalies and d-men will look tame.
Man, Mario was on a rampage that game... I believe the Pens won 10-4, and thus setting an NHL record with their 16th consecutive win! Thanks for showing this clip, Mario Lemieux and Mike Lange (announcer for the Pens) rock!
Man this seems like it was yesterday...love it.
jimmyk058 7 months ago
This was literally a day after I was born.....and I'm a Rangers fan lol
BillyWagner13 7 months ago
I'm a Rangers fan & was at this game. We were watching the Rangers choke away a playoff spot a year after being the Presidents Trophy Winners. It was depressing as hell. At the time, the idea that 1994 might finally bring us that joyous moment we'd been waiting for for so long never entered our minds. Since it did, I can look back on this game & smile. Me & my friend never left our seats. We stayed the whole game. As much as we hated to see NY lose, we felt honored to have witnessed this.
dzanier 9 months ago 2
ALL THE FAG GRETZKY FANS WHO THINK GRETZ WAS BETTER. WHERE'S THE GREAT ONE'S GOLD MEDAL, DID HE EVEN SCORE IN '98 ?
shivakrishnarama 1 year ago
@shivakrishnarama gretzky didn't compete in the olympics until 98 which was at the end of his career.
808state909 1 year ago
he was hella raw, the defense really should have helped out the goalie a bit more there lol.
MegaJoe63 1 year ago
what a fucking beast. the guy was huge and fast to boot. a defensemen's true nightmare. and this is coming from someone who doesn't even like the pens.
ghostsintheforum 1 year ago
Always respected the NY fans for the standing ovation they gave Mario that night.
steeltribute75 1 year ago
New York sports fans know when they see history, they stayed and applauded after the 5th goal.
CtrlRm 1 year ago
Its amazing to wonder how good he would have been if he wasnt playing with half a hip, no back and only one knee... plus the who cancer thing.
Best player who could only ever play at 70% due to alll the health issues that ruined him physically. Not being able to even tie his skates or get over the boards. he had to pull his legs up over the boards using his arms. He had to have teammates pull him and give him pushes, In one playoff game he was crying on the bench in agony,
kanuck87 2 years ago
Was lucky to be at this game, still have stub (Sec 425, Row E). Ranger fans hated him as he always scored 2 goals to kill the Rangers. First 2 goals, he got booed...... Hat trick, got some cheers. 4th goal, fans cheered it like a Ranger had scored. 5th goal, standing ovation, then the 1-2-3-4-5 we want 6 chant. We knew we were witnessing hockey history, great player at his best. He sure was Super Mario that night.
HarryMonk15 2 years ago 2
LOL! man how many 5 goal games did he have???
ston3s 2 years ago
0:06
He looks like Gretzky
gnomjara 2 years ago
Umm great performance but, the greatest player in NHL history is Gretzky. Dumb homer announcer.
WeTrustChrist 2 years ago
that is very debatable. You can easily make a case for mario being just as good (if not better) if you are a neutral fan of both players
jgrewal66 2 years ago
that's an opinion and not a fact.
blindcynic 2 years ago
@WeTrustChrist
Coming from someone with WeTrustChrist as their name.....that means little. Gretzky avoided cancer and a fucked up back yet Mario still averaged a higher PPG then Gretzky and half his career he played with a bunch of cans. Tell that to your false Deity.
TheTokinbudZ 1 year ago
@TheTokinbudZ
Actually Gretzky averaged a higher PPG than Lemieux, check again. And you should know than Gretzky didn't avoid a fucked up back.
Irato99 1 year ago
@WeTrustChrist your a complete idiot. Pray to god to give you half a brain. Lemieux was 10 times the player gretzky was. Lemieux didnt have an all-star team around him to help out. He did it all himself. If lemieux played as many games as wayne, Your poor gretzky wouldnt have a record left!
drumhak 1 year ago
@drumhak lemieux had a great cast of players around him. the two years that they won the cup, lemieux played around 60 games combined. if those teams were poor, they would have never come close to the playoffs let along repeated a stanley cup. lemieux was extremely important and certainly a great player, but to say he didn't play on good teams is wrong.
808state909 1 year ago
I'll always remember this game. Simply an amazing performance.
Hockeygod98 2 years ago
If by "true" you mean "untrue", then I agree with you.
Spungoman 2 years ago
mike richter gave up ten goals?
Chapas45 2 years ago
No. Corey Hirsch started and gave up the first 5 goals I believe. Richter replaced Hirsch in the third and gave up the rest. Vanbiesbrouck was also on their roster at the time but he was away due to a death in his family I believe.
norvturner4life 2 years ago
i wonder if they'll give a standing O if and when crosby has a 7 or 8 point night at MSG
jrolley325 2 years ago
Umm...Nope. Even as a Pens fan, I have to admit that will never, ever happen. No road team's fans will ever cheer Crosby for a 7 or 8 point night. Just bc of his name and not bc of his achievement. Ridiculous, but true.
justrun62689 2 years ago
Greatest line during this video-
TIES an all time personal high!!!
He had done it before!
WOW!
wadebud 3 years ago
he scored 5 several times
and the best line in this vido was
"And if you missed this one shame on ya for 6 weeks."
ACParker13 3 years ago 2
Atleast to times... :)
popcornered 2 years ago
too good
DREADS613 3 years ago
Paul Stigerwald said it all...."one of the greatest performances in NHL history....by the greatest player in NHL history."
Truer words have never been spoken.
jfausti1976 3 years ago 2
Hats off to the Ranger fans who recognize and respect great hockey no matter what team it is.
insaneiaq 3 years ago 9
haha 10-3 penguins , yes the announcer is right the rangers are desperate, was it 10 all on richter, its funny they retire the jersey of a mediocore goalie
SteveO1887 4 years ago
ur just lookin for trouble with that comment hah, Richter mediocre, nope, everyone can hava a bad game, especially against that era Penguin team...think Corey Hirsch allowed a couple too.
B2B76 4 years ago 2
blow me. I put ritcher on top 30 goalies ever
fridogg 4 years ago
Lemieux made every goalie look mediocre. No. 66 is simply the greatest!!
ZUFALL2938 4 years ago 34
wow ur a dickhead mario did make every goalie look mediocre but richter was not a bad goalie at all and also in the 80s and early 90s it was ridicuolously easier to score goals than it is now so high scores were waaaaaay mor common than today
NYRangersHockey77 3 years ago
not every goalie, just goalies like richter
SteveO1887 3 years ago
Why does everybody have to drag into the Lemieux/Gretzky thing? Gretzky would have great no matter who played with, just like Lemieux. The Oilers just constucted a better team faster, and Gretzky is older then Lemieux. I do think that if Mario had the health that Gretzky had over his career, their numbers were be very close. Mario was a better goal scorer, Gretzky was a better assist man. Both were great players, probably the two best their game and country ever produced.
bucklesisfake 4 years ago
I seen alot of clips where Mark Messier was just hanging on for dear life when trying to check him, oh well, can't dominate everything in hockey.
Maxie1111 4 years ago
he never played a full season, he had dog shit for teammates until 1990.thats 6 years with no help. gretzkey played with 8 hall of famers. there really is no comparasion. he was the only player ever to average more than 2pts. a game until he came out of retirement. just to show you what a bad ass he was new york fans really give an opposing player a standing ovation, that was the only time i can remember agreeing with a ranger fan.lol...
bern1417 4 years ago
@bern1417 He had Paul Coffey, Dan Quinn, John Cullen and Rob Brown from 87-90. Not a bad supporting cast for the time. Ever looked at Wayne's first 2 years? He hardly had help himself. Wasn't till the mid-80s that everyone else had caught up closer to Wayne's level on Edmonton. Wayne scored 137 points as a teenager with linemates like Don Ashby, Blair MacDonald and Brett Callighen, much like Lemieux got 100 with mediocrities like Bob Errey, Doug Shedden and Warren Young. Apples n oranges.
journeythruthepast 1 year ago
@journeythruthepast Are you stone cold fucking nuts to compare the talent Wayne Gretzky had to work with to the trash Lemieux had? Lemieux's first three years in the league he had absolutely nothing to work with, Gretzky on the other hand in his first three years, had Messier, Anderson and Coffey, those guys were 100 point producers in the first 3 years of Gretzky. Name a single Penguin that had 50 goals or 100 points in the first 3 years of Lemieux's career.
leez92 10 months ago
Wasn't till year three that any of those guys did anything worth spit. And still, Wayne won two harts and a scoring title. And he still had 42 more goals and 108 more points than the next best player on Edmonton that 3rd year. He has Mario beat for years 3-6 of their careers in terms of surrounding talent for sure but before their prime he carried that his team much like Mario had to. Wayne was better from 18-22 years of age than Mario at the same ages. Helped that Gretz had more pro experience.
journeythruthepast 10 months ago
@leez92 Messier had 12 goals then 22 before getting 50 in 81-82, Anderson was a good rookie in 80-81 but no better than Warren Young was for Mario. Wayne had no established scorer on his first 2 seasons. At least Mario had former 50 goal men Mike Bullard and Wayne Babych. Look up the 79-81 Oiler stats and you'll find the future stars were still moulding into form and the rest was crap that Wayne made look good. The idea Gretzky always had stars by his side is a myth.
journeythruthepast 10 months ago
@journeythruthepast Its not worth arguing with someone that thinks Dan Quin, John Cullen, and Rob Brown, were ever on the same level as Mark Messier, Glenn Anderson, and Jari Kurri, at any point in their careers.
leez92 10 months ago
@leez92 I never said that! God you're reading what you want to read. That's ludicrous. Why do you have to get so testy with me? I just said that it's a myth Gretzky always had superior support to work with. Only from 1981-88 and don't tell me the Kings teams Gretzky was on had more talent than the Pens of the late 80s and beyond. The 87-90 Pens weren't awful but nowhere close to the Oilers. But after 1990, Lemieux's teams were almost always more talented than the ones Gretzky played on.
journeythruthepast 10 months ago
You're right to a point, but Wayne's first year he had nobody. Messier wasn't even on his line, plus Messier wasn't even close to an impact player yet. His linemates were Brett Callighen and Blair McDonald. Ring a bell? I didn't think so. Coffey, Anderson and Kurri did not debut until 80-81. In Lemieux's first season he didn't have much. Doug Shedden and Mike Bullard maybe, but those players were established scorers while Gretzky's linemates were unknowns.
dzanier 9 months ago
Whatever advantage Wayne had from 84-85 through 87-88 no longer existed once Wayne got traded to LA and the Pens started to get more talented players from within and outside the organization. Having said that, one could make the argument Mario was as good as Wayne.
dzanier 9 months ago
You're right. Lots of people don't know that.
dzanier 9 months ago
He might have beaten Gretzky's record of 92 goals in a season, cause he got 85 in 1988-89. And he might've beaten Gretzky's record of 215 points cause he got 199 in 1988-89. And he was only twenty-four then.
dzanier 4 years ago
That is as remarkable a goal as I've ever seen. I was at that game. It was just unbelievable. As far as Lemieux being the greatest ever, I still say Gtetzky is number one. Not by a lot. Gretzky did one thing that Lemieux would never have done even if he had stayed healthy. He had 162 assists in a season. 1985-86. That's more than 2 assists per game!!!!
dzanier 4 years ago
mario lemieux was beastly and 10-3 I miss those days
lemieux6687 4 years ago
wow richter just got played....super mario was the man
crockett007 4 years ago
That game was such an embarassment. The Rangers were so bad in that game. A game they HAD TO win. We Rangers fans were giving him a standing O because we wanted the Rangers to feel as bad as they could possibly feel about sucking so bad in a game that was so important. That game started the Rangers towards thinking of next year. Which was finally OUR YEAR. 1994.
dzanier 4 years ago
that was really classy when they gave him a standing ovation after what lemieux went through that year. rangers are my 2nd favorite team behind the pens
grimetime55 4 years ago
You're righty that was classy of the Rangers fans.
dzanier 4 years ago
What a goal by the best player in the hockey, ever! :D
tinkezione 5 years ago
Lemieux truly was the greatest ever.
kovach1116 5 years ago
That was an awsome deke..wow
Sleemz 5 years ago
wow good old mario and typical rangers
SteveO1887 5 years ago
the announcer wasn't mistaken... u are
magnifique66 5 years ago
thank you for posting this- i was watching this live...one of my first hockey memories...
mario is the man.
sladesteel 5 years ago
the announcer is just being a realist, we all know had Super Mario had a healthy career, he would've obliterated every single Wayne record..
miafins11 5 years ago
Definitely would have crushed all of Wayne's record. It's a shame really.
thetaxidermist 5 years ago
No he would not have. Are you joking?
dzanier 4 years ago
1487 894 1963 2857
915 690 1033 1723
The above are Gretzky's and Lemieux's career totals in games, goals, assists, points. Lemieux played 572 fewer games,scored 294 fewer goals, 930 fewer assists, 1,134 fewer points. If he had played as many games as Gretzky he would've had to have averaged almost two points a game for those 572 games. That would've been tough to do.
dzanier 4 years ago
wow, do you realize the adversity that lemieux had to face in his entire career? Gretzky had no adversity to face. How well do you think Gretzky would have done faced with the same trials as Lemieux? Gretzky was great, second best even, don't get me wrong, Lemieux was just better.
thetaxidermist 4 years ago
I do realize that Lemieux had a lot of adversity to face. I was not minimizing what he did at all nor do I minimize what he had to face. There's just no way of knowing what would've happened. Adversities are part of life. I always loved him as a player.
dzanier 4 years ago
Part of why I hate Lemieux/Gretzky debates is how people take it as gospel that Lemieux would've destroyed- not just surpassed but destroyed!?- all of Wayne's marks if healthy. Assists even? Naah. Problem is, Mario was injury prone from the day he started junior. And adversity? Sure Mario faced more but 2 can play that game. Look at Wayne in the '93 playoffs at 32 after a herniated disc scare that year. Mario was retired at that age, his body couldn't take it as well as Wayne's.
journeythruthepast 1 year ago
@thetaxidermist He was also 6'5/230 with big reach to Wayne's 5'11/180. Lemieux could outperform and outskill anyone, Gretzky used his smarts and unmatchable hockey sense. They're like comparing apples and oranges but so many debates prop up one while slamming the other. If I can say anything negative about Mario it was he was brittle. But he more than made up for that with his play when healthy and his ability to dominate even when in terrible pain. But Bobby Orr did it first, hehe.
journeythruthepast 1 year ago
@journeythruthepast The bottom line is that the league your watching today has the best players. Bobby Orr is a 2011 D-man who dropped into the 1970's. My guess is that if you put Lemieux, Gretz and Orr into today's game they would look something Rick Nash, Henrik Sedin and Drew Doughty respectively. In today's game everybody is scrutinized, micromanaged etc.... Look at Lemieux's goal against the North Stars in the Cup Final, NO top 2 defenseman in today's game would get undressed like that.
shivakrishnarama 1 year ago
@shivakrishnarama But a player can adapt to the changing league and the training methods throughout his career. When Lemieux started back in 1984, it was easier to undress the d-men because even good teams only had 2 or 3 that could skate backwards with any efficiency. But in 2001, he was still making the elites look silly and after a 3 year retirement no less. You can't deny superhuman talent. But generally I agree with you. In 30 years what Crosby or OV did to goalies and d-men will look tame.
journeythruthepast 1 year ago
I know the announcer did not spit in Gretzky's face like that and call Lemeuix "the greatest player in NHL history". I must have heard wrong.
garfield1994 5 years ago
No you heard right. The announcer was just stating the facts.
tatomka 5 years ago
Man, Mario was on a rampage that game... I believe the Pens won 10-4, and thus setting an NHL record with their 16th consecutive win! Thanks for showing this clip, Mario Lemieux and Mike Lange (announcer for the Pens) rock!
rjsbird287 5 years ago