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NY Islanders legend Clark Gillies has passed away.

NY Islanders legend Clark Gillies has passed away.

Jean Potvin, Part of the 1980s Islanders’ N.H.L. Dynasty, Dies at 72
He was traded to New York in 1973, when they were an awful expansion team, but became part of a fast-improving franchise that won its first two Stanley Cups in 1980 and ’81.

Jean Potvin, a defenseman who played on the first two of the New York Islanders’ four Stanley Cup championship teams in the 1980s, died on Tuesday in Westin, Fla. He was 72.

His brother Denis confirmed the death, at a hospital. He said the cause was not yet known, pending an autopsy.

Potvin spent 11 seasons in the National Hockey League, eight with the Islanders. He joined the team from the Philadelphia Flyers in a trade during the 1972-73 season, when the Islanders, then in their first year as an expansion team, were awful.

But Potvin felt that he would get more playing time on a bad team. He also anticipated, correctly, that the Islanders would choose his brother Denis, who was four years younger, as the top overall pick in the forthcoming N.H.L. amateur draft.

Denis, also a defenseman, became a star in the league and was inducted into the Hockey Fall of Fame in 1991.

“Many people think of him as one of the top five defenseman,” Jean Potvin told Psyched, a sports psychology magazine, in 2007. “I was not in that class. I was a better-than-average player, but lucky enough to play with some great teams with the Islanders.”

Mike Bossy, 4-time Stanley Cup champion with the New York Islanders, dead at 65 | CBC Sports

Mike Bossy, one of hockey's most prolific goal-scorers and a star for the New York Islanders during their 1980s dynasty, has died after a battle with lung cancer. He was 65.

Bossy had revealed his diagnosis in October in a letter to TVA Sports.

"It is with a lot of sadness that I need to step away from your screens, for a necessary pause," Bossy wrote in French. "I intend to fight with all the determination and fire you've seen me show on the ice."
It's the third loss from that Islanders era this year after fellow Hockey Hall of Famer Clark Gillies died in January and Jean Potvin died in March.

"Though containing him was the obsession of opposing coaches and checking him the focus of opposing players, Bossy's brilliance was unstoppable and his production relentless throughout his entire career," NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said Friday. "He thrilled fans like few others."

Montreal Canadiens icon Guy Lafleur, who captured five Stanley Cup titles and was a hockey hero in Quebec long before his NHL playing days, has died. He was 70.

The cause of death was not immediately known. However, Lafleur suffered through health issues in the latter stages of his life. In September 2019, he underwent quadruple bypass heart surgery, which was followed by lung surgery two months later.

Then, in October of 2020, he endured a recurrence of lung cancer.

For decades, Lafleur — nicknamed "The Flower" — scored seemingly with ease at all levels of hockey and grew into the role of one of the game's flashiest superstars. He often mesmerized fans with his signature long blond hair flowing behind him as he rushed up the ice before unleashing one of his patented booming slapshots.

By his 10th birthday, there were already signs that Lafleur was a generational talent, skating circles around kids three years his senior at an international peewee hockey tournament in Quebec City.

Lafleur played junior hockey for the Quebec Jr. Aces and Quebec Remparts. He amassed a staggering 465 points in two seasons and two playoffs with the Remparts, leading the team to the Memorial Cup title in 1971.

That year, Lafleur set the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League regular-season record of 130 goals, which was eclipsed by another French hockey prodigy, Mario Lemieux (133), in the 1983-84 campaign.