Claude Lemieux was known during his playing days ... But while playing for the Colorado Avalanche, he hit the Detroit Red Wings' Kris Draper from behind into the boards, severely damaging his ...

Revenge can take many forms, especially in sports, and most definitely in hockey. Whether a team or player gets payback on ...

Colorado’s Mike Ricci tried to slide it away, at which point Kris Draper slashed his stick ... still celebrating Darren McCarty kneeing Claude Lemieux in the head.) But the post-playoff era ...

but it’s Claude Lemieux’s hit on Kris Draper in Game 5 that dominates the narrative. Lemieux, who was suspended for Game 4 for sucker-punching Kozlov, returned to the ice for Game 5 and looked ...

Claude Lemieux hit Kris Draper from behind, slamming his face into the boards. It broke Draper's jaw, nose, cheekbone and gave him a concussion. Detroit ended up losing the series and failing to ...

But no hit defined this rivalry more than Claude Lemieux’s dirty check from behind on Kris Draper. Due to the hit, Draper suffered a broken jaw, nose, and orbital bone. In the following season ...

Perhaps the most infamous “turtling” display came in March 1997 when Claude Lemieux ... The prior spring, Lemieux had blindsided Red Wings forward Kris Draper, breaking his jaw, in a decisive ...

But really, the beef really took off when Claude Lemieux knocked Kris Draper head-first into the boards and severely injured him, an act for which Red Wings enforcer Darren McCarty exacted revenge ...

In the Western Conference finals, Claude Lemieux drove Kris Draper face-first into the boards ... It was a pattern he’d repeated more than once: injury, recovery, remarkable play.

In Game 6 of that physical postseason series, Avalanche forward Claude Lemieux checked Kris Draper from behind into ... that paralyzed Konstantinov and injured fellow Detroit defenseman Viacheslav ...

The Detroit Red Wings-Colorado Avalanche rivalry took center stage Sunday afternoon, hours before the Avalanche played for the Stanley Cup in Game 6 at Tampa Bay. ESPN's E60 "Unrivaled ...