Rangers fans who lived through the glory years of the of the 90’s know who Claude Lemieux is. For more than a decade, he was probably one of the most hated players in the NHL and his reputation for getting under the opposition’s skin was legendary.
That reputation earned him the nickname Pepe Lemieux which was a play on the Looney Tunes skunk character, Pepe Le Pew. Oddly enough, the only things they had in common was the French accent and the fact that people really don’t like skunks.
Blueshirts fans clearly remember the countless battles Lemieux and Adam Graves had during those bitter rivalry days.