Claude Lemieux has no recollection of playing his first of what would be 1,215 National Hockey League regular-season games back in 1983 for the Montreal Canadiens.
But he’ll never forget watching his son, Brendan, take to the ice for his debut Friday night at Bell MTS Place.
“This is exciting. They kind of throw the kids out, I didn’t know about that,” Lemieux told the Free Press moments after Brendan, 21, got the rookie treatment by taking a couple solo laps in the pre-game skate while the rest of the Winnipeg Jets hung back in the tunnel.