When Troy Loney looks at Jaromir Jagr, he doesn’t see the salt-and-pepper beard, the 1,629 NHL games he’s played or the flowing hair that’s bordering on a pretty decent mullet.
Loney still sees a baby-faced 18-year-old who spoke broken English, rocked a mullet 10 times better than this current version and wore some really hideous dress socks.
“I still think of him as the 18-year-old kid who was sitting next to me,” Loney told the Post-Gazette Monday before the Penguins’ annual alumni golf outing at St. Clair Country Club. “I always gave him a hard time because it looked like he had his dad’s dress socks on.