The hockey world is mourning the loss of a true legend.
Claude Lemieux—a four-time Stanley Cup champion and NHL star who played for the Montreal Canadiens, New Jersey Devils and the Colorado Avalanche—died May 28, the NHL Alumni Association confirmed. He was 60.
“On behalf of the Lemieux family,” the NHL wrote in its social media statement May 28, “we kindly ask that everyone respect their privacy during this difficult time.”
Claude is survived and “loved,” the NHL noted, by his wife Deborah Lemieux, as well as their four children—one of whom is fellow NHL star Brendan Lemieux.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office told the New York Times in response to questions about Claude’s death that deputies responded in the early hours of May 28 to a suicide attempt at a furniture showroom.
E! News reached out to the NHL Alumni Association but has not yet heard back.
Claude was beloved in the NHL. Geoff Molson, a co-owner of the Canadiens where he played for seven seasons and won his first Stanley Cup, expressed his condolences.
