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ARCHIVE: Penguins fans react to Mario Lemieux's final game in Pittsburgh before retirement (April 1997)

ARCHIVE: Penguins fans react to Mario Lemieux's final game in Pittsburgh before retirement (April 1997)
That last period is going to be *** killer. I hope I can make it through it. It's just going to be very emotional. I feel like I feel like crying. Now. Pat Van Buren and her husband have been sitting front row since Mario's first game at the last regular season game. Mario gave them his stick. He just kind of looked this way and just the top P stick and my husband got the stick. This is Justin's first game. His dad wanted him to see Mario play in person. This is your first time here. Why did you come tonight? Did she marry you and you win? C started selling beer the very same year Mario put on *** Penguin uniform. He's just simply the best every time he's out on the ice, people go nuts and he's just Mr Hockey emotional fans all here from Mario. I sad. We'll be crying and we forgot our Kleenex Mario rules. He's always been my idol. I play hockey for bolden myself. So Mario has always been my favorite player. He's the greatest player that ever lived and I'm excited, happy, sad, all emotions tonight running wild. There were *** lot of emotions here. The fans I talked with said they wanted to thank Mario for saving hockey in Pittsburgh and for doing it in style reporting from the igloo Michelle Wright channel four action news.
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ARCHIVE: Penguins fans react to Mario Lemieux's final game in Pittsburgh before retirement (April 1997)
With hockey great Mario Lemieux set to retire, Pittsburgh Penguins fans packed the Civic Arena for one last chance to see "Le Magnifique" take the ice.Pens fans shared their thoughts about Lemieux in this WTAE archive report from April 23, 1997, as Pittsburgh hosted the Philadelphia Flyers at the old "Igloo."Click the video player above to watch the archive video from 26 years ago.(It turned out not to be a permanent goodbye: Lemieux ended his retirement in December 2000 and launched a comeback with the Pens.)

With hockey great Mario Lemieux set to retire, Pittsburgh Penguins fans packed the Civic Arena for one last chance to see "Le Magnifique" take the ice.

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Pens fans shared their thoughts about Lemieux in this WTAE archive report from April 23, 1997, as Pittsburgh hosted the Philadelphia Flyers at the old "Igloo."

Click the video player above to watch the archive video from 26 years ago.

(It turned out not to be a permanent goodbye: Lemieux ended his retirement in December 2000 and launched a comeback with the Pens.)