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Guy Lafleur was a legendary hockey player and beloved disco fashion icon for the Montreal Canadiens. His son, obviously not wanting to follow in his father's footsteps, instead decided to become a lecherous predator.

Today, the younger Lafleur pleaded guilty to 14 criminal charges. Father must be proud.

Mark Lafleur pleaded guilty to accusations including assault, uttering threats to a minor and forcible confinement of a 17-year-old girl.

Lafleur was first arrested in January 2007. The 23-year-old has been in jail since November, when his bail was revoked for breaking conditions.

Last winter, Guy Lafleur was plunged into controversy when he was accused of offering contradictory testimony at his son's bail hearing. He testified last October that his son was respecting a court-ordered curfew while in his parents' custody.

The Hall of Famer later admitted he drove his son to hotels to spend the night with his 16-year-old girlfriend.

The reason why this story is of note to hockey fans is that Lafleur is one of the more beloved players in the province of Quebec, ever, and this whole mess with his son has drastically tarnished his image as a happy-go-lucky kinda guy.

Lafleur is so worried about his reputation that he is suing a Montreal police detective and a Crown prosecutor for $3.5 million, claiming his arrest in January damaged his "reputation and earnings."

Well, lying to the police and assisting your son in committing crime and breaking curfew pretty much tarnishes your image on its own, doesn't it?

Every day from Monday to Saturday, The Ice Sheet will take a look at the biggest stories in the league that happened on the ice and elsewhere the night before.

It's been a rather frustrating year for Sidney Crosby as he's fought an ankle injury and watched as Evgeni Malkin and Alexander Ovechkin steal his spotlight. With just six points in six March games, Crosby wasn't much of a factor as the Penguins battled the likes of the New Jersey Devils and New York Rangers to Atlantic Division supremacy.

Last night, Sidney finally put his stamp back on the team with a two-goal performance in the Penguins 4-2 win over the Flyers. With the win, the Pens win the division for the first time since 1998, and can finish no lower than second place in the Eastern Conference.

"We ended up losing Crosby (for 28 games) and Marc-Andre Fleury (for three months) and so many other guys during the course of the season, and we were just trying to focus and maintain our position to make the playoffs," coach Michel Therrien said. "The guys surprised me with their commitment."

Another interesting note: The Penguins sold out all 41 home games for the first time in their 41 year history. Given the team's past attendance problems, this is just more icing on the cake for the revived antarctic dwellers. Still, I find it amazing that they never sold out a season back when Mario Lemieux and the Pens were winning Stanley Cups. What the hell?

The rivalry between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens is one that is as old as the NHL itself. There's no doubt that the two teams aren't fond of each other and command a lot of attention in the East and throughout Canada. Those facts lead me to wonder -- it is too hard to believe that these teams are now battling for attention, even if it's negative? This conspiracy theorist doesn't think so. Not only are these two teams uber competitive, they might just be crazy enough to do such a thing.

Last week we were met with all kinds of ridiculous stories about the now infamous John Ferguson Jr. scandal. First, he wants to fire his coach but isn't allowed to ... No wait, he is going to get fired! ... Now they're regretting ever birthing hiring him ... Surely, he's got to be canned now!

It was all very confusing, but hopefully you're following me. Long story short, that week was the same week that the Maple Leafs tanked it, going 0-3-1 during a four game stretch from November 20th through the 27th. Many in Toronto proclaimed that the sky over Toronto was, indeed falling. All the while, the JFJ saga continued to unfold towards the end of that streak. Between the two, there was enough of a media frenzy to last for weeks.

Leave it to Montreal to want in on a piece of the action. After all, you can't let the Leafs get all the attention.

As a Hockey Hall of Famer and a legend whose visage could appear on the Montagne Rushmore of the franchise, when Guy Lafleur speaks the Montreal Canadiens (and the media that cover them) will listen. So they heard Lafleur, after getting swept by Buffalo in a home-and-home over the weekend, when he suggested on an RDS postgame show that the Canadiens had, in fact, four fourth lines.

TSN reported the comment, and then sought out reactions from the Habs today at practice. Canadiens forward Christopher Higgins said, "It's a little bit over the top. But I definitely don't agree with him, that's for sure." Saku Koivu was a little more defensive: "We didn't play well on Saturday, we didn't score goals, but when a team is number one on the powerplay in the National Hockey League, I think you have more than four fourth lines."

Coach Guy Carbonneau played with Lafleur in Montreal from 1982-85, and gave a knowing response to the comments: "Guy is Guy," he said. "This is not his first comment ... Everybody knows we have better players than that."

In Lafleur's defense, Pat Hickey of CanWest wrote that Carbonneau -- in a fit of desperation after losing four of six games heading into Tuesday's night's tilt in Toronto -- used at least 15 different line combinations during Saturday night's 3-0 loss to the Buffalo Sabres. With over a dozen different combos, I'd imagine the chances that the Habs had "four fourth lines" at some point during the game were pretty damn good, actually.