You don’t tug on Superman’s cape. You don’t spit into the wind. You don’t pull the mask off the ol’ Lone Ranger. And you don’t mess around with Geno.
Readers of a certain age will recognize the lyrics to Jim Croce’s classic, You Don’t Mess Around With Jim. With all due respect to late singer/songwriter, I altered his last verse to sound a warning to the rest of the league.
Don’t rile the big Russian.
The two-time defending Cup champion Lightning learned the hard way. Five minutes into the third period of an intensely chippy affair, Evgeni Malkin banged into Corey Perry, who’d been throwing his weight around, and sent the Bolts’ heavy corkscrewing into the ice.