Former NHL player Claude Lemieux, whose career as one of hockey’s biggest on-ice pests and clutch scorers helped him win four Stanley Cups, has passed away at the age of 60.

Lemieux was selected by the Montreal Canadiens from the QMJHL’s Trois-Rivieres Draveurs in the second round of the 1983 NHL Draft.

In his first full season with the Canadiens in 1985-86, he scored a team-leading 10 goals in 20 playoff games to help the Canadiens win their 23rd Stanley Cup.

After seven seasons in Montreal, the Canadiens traded Lemieux to the New Jersey Devils prior to the 1990-91 season. In 1995, he led all postseason scorers with 13 goals and won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP after the Devils swept the Detroit Red Wings in the Stanley Cup Final to win their first championship.

Lemieux was traded to the Colorado Avalanche before the following season and became the 10th player in NHL history to win the Stanley Cup in consecutive years with different teams when he helped Colorado to its first championship, tallying 12 points in 19 games.

Lemieux had 78 goals and 158 points – including 19 game-winning goals – in 234 playoff games.

In 1,215 career regular-season games with the Canadiens, Devils, Avalanche, Phoenix Coyotes and San Jose Sharks, he scored 379 goals and tallied 786 points.

Lemieux is the older brother of former NHL forward Jocelyn Lemieux, while his son Brendan played for five NHL teams over seven seasons.

Lemieux’s final public appearance was on Monday, when he carried the pre-game torch into the Bell Centre prior to the Canadiens’ Game 3 against the Carolina Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference Final.