Each Thursday for the remainder of summer, Post-Gazette columnist Joe Starkey will break down the quarter-century in Pittsburgh sports. This week’s category is the five most memorable rants/snaps since 2000.

The late, great Herb Brooks merits an early mention here. He delivered two of the most incredible rants I have witnessed in person.

In the first, then-Penguins coach Brooks threatened a Colorado Avalanche broadcaster. In the second, he lit up a Philadelphia Flyers defenseman like a pinball machine.

Luke Richardson, the defenseman in question, had fired a puck directly into the chest of Penguins defenseman Bob Boughner in Game 5 of an Eastern Conference playoff series. The Penguins took great exception. Especially their coach.

“I wonder if Richardson is a direct descendent of the co

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