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Writer Recalls Final Conversation With Claude Lemieux Days Before His Death

Hockey writer and historian Liam Maguire reflected poignantly on an in-person conversation he had with late NHL great Claude Lemieux just days before his death by suicide. “I said, ‘Geez, you look great, I don’t even think you’re five pounds over playing weight,’” Maguire told the Daily Mail. “He laughed and just said he was running a business in Florida, doing some stuff, and living life. And I mean, it’s so ironic to say that now that he’s gone.” The conversation between Maguire and Lemieux happened before Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Finals in Montreal on May 25, wh...