{"id":171116,"date":"2025-09-26T20:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/171116\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T20:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:12:07","slug":"fleurys-kid-pranks-his-dad-malkin-in-penguins-locker-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/171116\/","title":{"rendered":"Fleury\u2019s kid pranks his dad, Malkin in Penguins locker room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the month, Fleury <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/marc-andre-fleury-signs-professional-tryout-contract-with-pittsburgh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">signed a professional tryout contract<\/a> with the Penguins. The veteran goalie is set to play one final time during the Penguins preseason game against the Columbus Blue Jackets on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Fleury was drafted by the Penguins with the first overall pick in 2023 NHL Draft. He played 13 of his 21 NHL seasons in Pittsburgh, winning three Stanley Cups (2009, 2016-17).<\/p>\n<p>Penguins captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/sidney-crosby-8471675\" title=\"Sidney Crosby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sidney Crosby<\/a> thought James\u2019 future in pranking looks bright.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe&#8217;s gonna get there,\u201d Crosby said. \u201cHe&#8217;s got the right teacher. He&#8217;s gonna have to do a couple to get used to it, but he&#8217;ll get there eventually. He&#8217;s the future, that&#8217;s for sure. He&#8217;s the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/bryan-rust-8475810\" title=\"Bryan Rust\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryan Rust<\/a> revealed the young prankster even put a fake snake in the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe did not get me. I saw him get [Malkin],\u201d Rust said. \u201c[He] put a rubber snake in the bathroom. I\u2019m not sure if it got anybody, but I\u2019m sure it did. It\u2019s fun to see the apple doesn\u2019t fall far from the tree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No one is safe around those Fleury boys.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; NHL.com Independent Correspondent Wes Crosby contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier in the month, Fleury signed a professional tryout contract with the Penguins. The veteran goalie is set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-171116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}