TORONTO (AP) - Mario Lemieux and Bryan Trottier, teammates on the Pittsburgh Penguins' Stanley Cup-winning teams in 1991 and 1992, were elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame on Tuesday.

Edmonton Oilers general manager Glen Sather was honored in the builders' category, with all three to be inducted Nov. 17.

Lemieux overcame Hodgkin's disease and a serious back injury during his extraordinary 12-year career.

His election comes without the usual three-year wait. The Hall cited his ''outstanding pre-eminence and skill'' in waiving waiting period.

''I think it's fantastic,'' Montreal's Mark Recchi, a former linemate of Lemieux, said Tuesday. ''If anybody, he deserves it. ... He made hockey in Pittsburgh.''

The Hall has inducted eight other players without the normal waiting period: Bobby Orr, Gordie Howe, Jean Beliveau, Terry Sawchuk, Red Kelly, Ted Lindsay, Maurice Richard and Dit Clapper.

Lemieux finished with 613 career goals and 1,494 points. He captured three Hart Trophies (league MVP), six Art Ross Trophies (top scorer) and two Conn Smythe Trophies (playoff MVP).

Trottier was brilliant in his own right. He won six Stanley Cups with the New York Islanders and Penguins during an 18-year career. He scored 524 goals and had 1,425 points in 1,279 regular season games. He won the Calder, Hart, Art Ross and Conn Smythe Trophies.

Sather, entering his 19th year as Edmonton's GM, built the Oilers into a powerhouse in the 1980s.

With players such as Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier, Paul Coffey and Grant Fuhr, the Oilers won five Stanley Cups.

Also to be honored with Lemieux, Trottier and Sather will be Hockey News founder Ken McKenzie, who won the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award, and longtime Philadelphia Flyers radio voice Gene Hart, the winner of the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award.

Thirteen nominees - including four players - were considered for this year's Hall of Fame inductions