THIS DATE IN HISTORY: Aug. 29
1994: Mario Lemieux announces that he will sit out the 1994-95 NHL season because of back problems and fatigue, an aftereffect from his radiation treatment for cancer. However, doctors tell him he has no recurrence of the Hodgkin's disease he was diagnosed with in 1993 or the anemia he developed during the 1993-94 season.
He says he will return only if he can "play like Mario Lemieux can play." The year off apparently helps him do just that; he returns during the 1995-96 season and leads the NHL in scoring, winning the Art Ross Trophy with 69 goals and 161 points and the Hart Trophy as the League's most valuable player. Lemieux doesn't retire for good until Jan. 24, 2006.
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1901: Aurel Joliat, one of the NHL's first stars, is born in Ottawa. Joliat joins the Montreal Canadiens from Saskatoon of the WCHL in September in 1922; one year later, he teams with Howie Morenz to form one of the most potent scoring duos during the early years of the NHL. The 5-foot-6, 136-pound left wing plays on three Stanley Cup-winning teams with Montreal and finishes his career in 1938 with 270 goals, then the most by any Canadien. He is inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1947.
1964: The Hockey Hall of Fame announces its newest class, including Doug Bentley, Bill Durnan, Babe Siebert, "Black Jack" Stewart and referee Bill Chadwick, the first U.S.-born official to earn induction. Chadwick works more than 900 regular-season games and a record 42 games in the Stanley Cup Final during his 16 seasons as an NHL referee.
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