Malkin pranks Kessel with 'The Phil Zone' at Pens' practice facility
The Pittsburgh Penguins are feeling loose ahead of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
On Thursday, with the Pens low on locker-room space in New Jersey and Evgeni Malkin not in the lineup, the club set up his "stall" in the hallway. And Phil Kessel was all over it.
Pigeon🐦 couldn't even get a regular stall pic.twitter.com/KSxDnrvA3f
— Phil Kessel (@PKessel81) April 6, 2017
On Thursday, Malkin had his revenge, setting up "The Phil Zone" at the Pens' practice facility, stocked with cans of Coke and Tim Hortons coffee.
Here's what happens when you mess with Geno...
— Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) April 7, 2017
📷 cred: @Letang_58
Before: https://t.co/54ZLJxFa1i
After: pic.twitter.com/sLe5mvM9w3
The Penguins have more on the whole saga:
Coach Sullivan on today's locker room prank: "It's all in good fun. And Phil always seems to be in the center of all that." pic.twitter.com/Go70z6deYY
— Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) April 7, 2017
Malkin made sure to get a hot-dog reference in, when asked about the prank.
When Kessel was traded to Pittsburgh by the Maple Leafs, a Toronto scribe wrote that one of the ramifications of the deal was lost revenue for a hot-dog vendor in the city.
For Halloween in 2015, Kessel's teammate Bryan Rust dressed up as a hot dog, with a T-shirt that read "Property of Phil." Never gets old.