Penguins assistant Mark Recchi on facing the Flyers: 'Oh, it's fun'

When Claude Giroux became only the sixth Flyer to score 100 points in a season last Saturday, two names on the list stood out. One was Bobby Clarke, the iconic captain of their two Stanley Cup champions, who did it three times. The other was Mark Recchi, a Flyer in two stints with the club, who did it twice.

In his first season as a Penguins assistant coach, Recchi has his name on more Cups than all five of those other names, which is another way of saying that his allegiance has always been to the game more than any other sweater. Named to hockey’s Hall of Fame in 2017, he won one with the Penguins as a 22-year-old in 1990-91, won another with Peter Laviolette’s Carolina Hurricanes in…