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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Personally, I rank Lemieux's playoff reputation right along with Mark Messier's leadership reputation: vastly overrated. In the regular season, Lemieux scored .645ppg. His playoff average was .675. An improvement, but hardly legendary. He had a couple of ridiculous single-year performances (1995 and 1997 in particular), but one of the top playoff performers of all-time? A little bit of hyperbole there.
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If you've won 4 Stanley Cups, a Conn Smythe and you've scored the 9th most playoff goals in NHL history, I think it's fair to say you're one of the top playoff performers of all-time.