Watch enough Penguins games and you’ll notice that certain guys are just total nuisances. Don’t they know their role is to play Jack Nicholson’s Joker to the black ‘n gold’s Michael Keaton’s Batman?
But such is the case, every good protagonist needs a worthy adversary and the Pens’ three Stanley Cups and only back-to-back titles in the salary cap era puts a target on them as a high profile opponent to knock down.
With a nod to a similar idea from our friends at All About the Jersey (where they shout out the mastery that Aleksey Morozov had over a little goalie named Martin Brodeur as well as Sidney Crosby torturing the Devils), let’s look at who has lit up Pittsburgh the most in the last five seasons with a tip to hockey-reference.