Penguins to honor Olympians

(Pittsburgh) - The Penguins will honor Olympic medal winners and participants before tonight's game against Los Angeles. <br><br>The game starts at 7:30 p-m at Mellon Arena. <br><br>Mario Lemieux

Wednesday, February 27th 2002, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

(Pittsburgh) - The Penguins will honor Olympic medal winners and participants before tonight's game against Los Angeles.

The game starts at 7:30 p-m at Mellon Arena.

Mario Lemieux was the captain of Canada's Olympic team, which brought home the gold medal. Craig Patrick was the general manager of the silver medal-winning U-S team.

Darius Kasparaitis and Alexei Kovalev played for Russia, which took the bronze.

Johan Hedberg played for Sweden's Olympic team and Robert Lang and Jan Hrdina played for the Czech Republic.