NHL Mario Lemieux Overcoming Illness & Injury 3/4/08

A 2 minute tribute spot, two days after the 15th anniversary of Penguins' #66 Mario Lemieux's return to the ice after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma.

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Sports

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• NHL
• Mario
• Lemieux
• Hodgkin's
• Lymphoma
• illness
• injury
• anniversary
• diagnosed
• Pittsburgh
• Penguins
• Pens
• 66
• tribute

[sarielx]

A 2 minute tribute spot, two days after the 15th anniversary of Penguins' #66 Mario Lemieux's return to the ice after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma.

[nate9112]

LOL at people thinking Gretzky was better.  Sorry you don't know hockey.

[davis21wylie]

Lemieux's story is an amazing tale of inspiration. Whenever I need strength to press on in life, I think of what he overcame, and it gives me courage.

[BestVidsRightHere]

@nate9112

Just shut up, Gretzky is #1, Mario is #2.

[FlyersHockeyPride]

@nate9112 Oh is it really? Think what you want, I could give a shit honestly...and Mario was BETTER than Gretzky? Sure, maybe people like you in the trailer parks who sleep with your cousins believe that shit! I forget more than you know, Cletus..you're the atypical Pens fan too....around when they win and you can't find them when they're losing! THAT, my friend, is atypical Penguin fan behavior! And I DON'T understand the difference? Yeah, umm, ok, fuckball! PENS SUCK! :-)

[nate9112]

@FlyersHockeyPride is a hilariously ironic handle. Also, I didn't say that Mario won more cups than Wayne, I just said that he was better. LOL at you not understanding the difference. Typical Flyer fan...

[FlyersHockeyPride]

@nate9112 Sorry, but YOU don't know hockey if you think Lemieux was better than Gretzky...Gretzky won 4 Cups, Mario only won 2...I was always good at math and I've always known that 4 IS greater than 2, twit! :-/

[deadhead957]

i was at the game in philly when he came back. as bad a reputation as we get in philly as sports fans, it was great to hear the thundering ovation we gave him before the game when he first hit the ice. it's rare to hear such a roar for a visiting player and all these years later its still fresh in my mind. As far as Gretzky being better, he might have been but i'd say he had a better team in Edmonton and maybe N.Y. as well. They were both special to watch.

[MrBarelylethal]

Gretzky was better

[MrBarelylethal]

gretky was more dominant

[thistimesacharm]

In This Time's a Charm; Lessons of a Four-Time Cancer Survivor, Donald A. Wilhelm, tells his real-life story from a patient's perspective about surviving cancer (Hodkin's) four times. His intent is to give his readers a true depiction of what cancer, and its treatment, is really like. "I've had pretty much had every treatment and every drug out there at one point or another," says Wilhelm.