Claude Lemieux, a four-time Stanley Cup champion and one of the most feared and controversial players in NHL history, has died, the NHL Alumni Association said Thursday. He was 60 years old.

A cause of death was not given and the association did not say where or when he died.

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.

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

He scored 786 points (379 goals, 407 assists). Lemieux played primarily with the Canadiens, New Jersey Devils and the Colorado Avalanche over 21 NHL seasons.

Lemieux won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP in 1995 after recording 13 goals in 20 post-season games for New Jersey. He is ninth all-time in postseason goals with 80 and is regarded as one of the greatest playoff performers ever.

Across 1,215 career games, however, he accumulated 1,777 career penalty minutes, and he garnered a reputation for being one of the dirtiest players in NHL history.

While playing with the Avalanche, he infamously drove Red Wings player Kris Draper face first into the dasher board. Draper suffered multiple facial fractures, and the hit sparked a rivalry between Colorado and Detroit that is considered perhaps the most fierce in hockey history.