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The actual explanation came out years later in medical journals:
http://www.squareknot.mcgill.ca/SquareKnot_Summer2003.pdf
You will have to scroll to page 4 for the continuation. Basically Lemieux had one of the early sports hernias. Hard time getting out of bed in the morning let alone getting up off the ice.
Well beyond the scope of the expertise Pat Burns brought to a team.
