Mike Lange’s iconic goal calls weren’t a string of undefeated success.

The ones that stuck emerged from a trial-and-error process.

“People gave him ideas and he would try some of them,” former Penguins executive Tom McMillan said. “Some didn’t work and he didn’t try them again. Some caught on and that became his calling card. There will never be another Mike Lange because you couldn’t do that again. You couldn’t copycat Mike because you would be too much of a copycat. He developed a unique style and that will never pass our way again.”

Lange’s goal calls were as much a part of the franchise’s identity as Mario Lemieux and Sidney Crosby.

Some of his best:

• “It’s a hockey night in Pittsburgh”

• “I’ll be cow-kicked”

• “Eddie Spaghetti”

• “He shoots and scores”

• “Scratch my back with a hacksaw”

• “Great balls of fire”

• “Look out Loretta”

• “Buy Sam a drink and get his dog one too”

• “He doesn’t know whether to cry or wind his watch”

• “Michael, Michael motorcycle”

• “Get in the fast lane Grandma, the bingo game’s ready to roll”

• “She wants to sell my monkey”

• “Call Arnold Slick from Turtle Crick”

• “He beat him like a rented mule”

• “Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has left the building”

• “Book’ em Dano”

• “Smiling like a butcher’s dog”

• “He takes the heat out of a hot kitchen”

• “He smoked him like a bad cigar”

• “Buzzing like bees around a hive”

• “Slap me silly, Sidney”

• “He should get five to 10 for that one”