Mario Lemieux is expected to announce next week that he's taking a one-year paid sabbatical from the Pittsburgh Penguins.

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Lemieux admitted for the first time this week that he suffers from an anemic blood condition that was triggered by radiation treatments he received for Hodgkin's disease."Basically it causes me to be fatigued," Lemieux said recently at a charity golf tournament.

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