On The Ice With Mario Lemieux

Download or read book On the Ice with...Mario Lemieux written by Matt Christopher and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-12-19 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hockey has been a part of Mario Lemieux's life since his childhood. At the age of six he was holding his own against boys four years older; by the time he was sixteen, he had captured the attention of the National Hockey league, and soon after signed on with NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins. At the 2002 Olympic Winter Games he captained the Canadian hockey team, leading them in their gold medal winning performance.