{"id":178774,"date":"2025-09-29T23:22:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/178774\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T23:22:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:22:16","slug":"marc-andre-fleury-plays-one-final-prank-on-penguins-teammates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/178774\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc-Andre Fleury plays one final prank on Penguins teammates"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was no chance Marc-Andre Fleury<\/a> could return for a final game in Pittsburgh without also bringing his pranks back, too.<\/p>\n

Fleury, whose skills as a prankster are almost as famous as his skills between the pipes, had No. 29 and flower car decals stuck on his teammates’ cars on Friday while they were all inside at practice. After more than 20 years of his shenanigans, however, no one was that surprised.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe always finds new ways to come up with new things. I don’t know how he does it,\u201d Sidney Crosby said.<\/a> \u201cI think it\u2019s even more impressive that there\u2019s no proof. It seems like there\u2019s no footage of how he gets away with it. We know it\u2019s him, but we don\u2019t really have any proof besides the 29 on my door. But other than that, nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Geno came in screaming, I kind of knew that something was up,\u201d defenceman Kris Letang said with a laugh. \u201cI knew that I wasn\u2019t going to be spared.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crosby joked about liking the new decor and decided that perhaps Fleury had taken it easy on the team, as he cited one prank years ago where he had filled conditioning coach Mike Kadar’s car with packing peanuts.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeeing him stand on the roof of a car and pile those things into the sunroof will be forever ingrained into my mind,\u201d Crosby said.<\/p>\n

Fleury, who retired at the end of last season, played his last period \u2014 and shootout \u2014 at PPG Paints Arena on Saturday, where he received an emotional farewell and multiple standing ovations from loyal fans who were excited to have him back for one final game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was no chance Marc-Andre Fleury could return for a final game in Pittsburgh without also bringing his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-178774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}