PITTSBURGH — I’m not even including Jaromir Jagr or Evgeni Malkin in this piece, except for right here — and many franchises would be thrilled to call those two their best players of all time.
With Cups and scoring titles and Hart Trophies strewn between them, both are first-ballot Hall of Fame shoo-ins, unless the voters snub Malkin the way they did on that 100 greatest list a few years ago.
Anyway, I was on my way to a Sidney Crosby column after he scored that vintage backhand goal Wednesday night in Colorado — the same day NHL players again voted him the best all-around player in the league — when I accidentally stopped by Mario Lemieux. And then couldn’t leave.
