Of course John Marino earned the helmet after the Penguins’ Thursday night 6-5 victory over the visiting Senators; in his 147th regular-season game, the defenseman dropped his gloves against notorious Ottawa instigator Brady Tkachuk for his first NHL fight, the hockey equivalent of a coming-of-age ceremony.
It’s a moment each Penguins star went through over a decade ago (feel old yet)? Let’s celebrate Marino’s milestone by looking back at when the gloves of the Penguins’ big three dropped for the first time.
Sidney Crosby vs. Andrew Ference (Dec. 20, 2007)
By scoring, assisting and dropping the gloves with Andrew Ference, Crosby recorded his first NHL fight as part of his first Gordie Howe hat trick.