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Originally Posted by Buff
Lemieux's 2nd goal though.
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Yeah, that was unbelievable--man against boys. Doing all that against arguably the best d-corp in the league that year too. IMO, Mario's run from 87-88 to 95-96 in the best run in the history of hockey. It's an absolute shame he was hurt/battled illness because I think his all-time numbers would have easily cemented him much closer to 99 when it was all said and done. At 8th place in the all time NHL scoring department he is only 198 points behind now second place (Jagr). You have to figure he'd be up there easily with 2,500 points if he didn't miss parts of 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, most of 1994 and all of 1995.
Also, that 89 Penguins teams has always intrigued me. They were made up of Mario, Coffey, Rob Brown and mostly grinders. The put up a ton of goals but played zero D. They also fought a ton--nearly 2,700 team pims.
This also might have been the best game Steve Guenette's career stopping 43 of 44 shots. As most of us know, Flames picked him up as insurance that season for a 6th round pick.