Overview
- Palm Beach County police found Claude Lemieux dead in his Lake Park furniture store on Thursday and said his death is being treated as an apparent suicide.
- The National Hockey League confirmed his death and Commissioner Gary Bettman called Lemieux one of the game’s greatest clutch players.
- Lemieux won four Stanley Cups across a 21-season NHL career and earned the 1995 Conn Smythe Trophy for playoff MVP.
- He had been publicly honored in Montreal days earlier and is survived by his wife Deborah and four children, including son Brendan Lemieux.
- Media reports note that police are carrying out routine investigative steps, that teams have issued public condolences, and that coverage includes suicide-help contacts and mental-health resources.