On this day 26 years ago, two titans of the hockey enforcing world squared off, and hooo boy, this one was a doozy of basically a bar knuckle boxing match on ice.
While many people feel like Luc Robitaille is a forgotten Penguin player over the ages, for me it’s probably more McSorley. Which is weird since Robitaille was a Penguin (1994-95) only one season after McSorley (1993-94) in this era, but both played limited games with Pittsburgh (47 for McSorley, 46 for Robitaille in a lockout shortened season). Older fans will also doubtlessly remember that was McSorley’s second stint with the Penguins, as he broke in with the team in 1983-84 and was an first year teammate to Mario Lemieux in 1984-85 before McSorely’s trade to Edmonton where he achieved most his fame as basically the personal enforcer for Wayne Gretzky over the rest of the ‘1980s.