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With Mr. Lemieux's return, we're eating our words once again

By Pierre LeBrun

Monday, January 19, 2009

Imagine Rob Blake's surprise Monday when he walked into the dressing room in San Jose and saw none other than Claude Lemieux. Blake had not yet heard his team had called up the veteran winger, so that's how he found out. "It was nice to run into him," Blake told ESPN.com. "It makes J.R. and I a little younger on our team." Blake and Jeremy Roenick are both 39 years old, puppies compared to the 43-year-old Lemieux, who also happens to be two and half years older than Sharks coach Todd McLellan ...

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