I know I should be thinking about Mika Zibanejad, Artemi Panarin, Chris Kreider, Alexis Lafreniere and Adam Fox, but then why are David Volek, Ray Ferraro, Benoit Hogue, Darius Kasparaitis and Glenn Healy on my mind?
Oh, I get it. And so do you.
It was 1993, and the mighty Penguins of Mario Lemieux, Jaromir Jagr, Ron Francis, Rick Tocchet and Kevin Stevens were aiming for their third straight Stanley Cup. They had finished the season with a league-best 119 points while establishing an NHL record by winning 17 straight games before tying the final match of the year.
The Penguins had won nine straight playoff series coming off a first-round, five-game rout of the Devils and were next lined up to face the Islanders, who had finished 42 points behind Pittsburgh that season and had just upset the Capitals in a tumultuous six-game series in which Pierre Turgeon was cheap-shotted by Dale Hunter.
