Mario Lemieux

New York Islanders’ Joshua Ho-Sang has been the subject of some criticism recently. The rookie forward chose #66 as his number in honour of Penguins legend Mario Lemieux. This has attracted some negative comments and has become a distraction for Ho-Sang. Embed from Getty Images Now Lemieux himself has weighed in on the debate, telling the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that “I’m fine with it… it’s just a number”. Well, that’s that. Lemieux of course played his whole NHL career with the Pittsburgh Penguins, and scored 1,723 points. His number was retired by the Penguins in 1997. Lemieux then goes on the make the point that theRead More →