Four-time Stanley Cup winner Claude Lemieux, who was playoff MVP in 1995 and was involved in a controversial hit in 1996, died Thursday at age 60, the Montreal Canadiens announced.

Claude Lemieux, who played for the then- Phoenix Coyotes among other teams, has died at 60.

Lemieux had appeared at Bell Centre in Montreal just three days earlier, for Game 3 of the Eastern Conference final between the Carolina Hurricanes and Montreal Canadiens, when he carried a torch and ...