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See Mario Lemieux Dive Into Sidney Crosby's Pool
The Pittsburgh Penguins co-owner got the team's Stanley Cup celebration off to a damp start Monday night.
PITTSBURGH, PA - Some people couldn’t wait for Wednesday’s parade to begin celebrating the Penguins second consecutive Stanley Cup championship.
Count Pens co-owner Mario Lemieux among them.
At a party at superstar center Sidney Crosby’s house on Monday, Lemieux decided to leap into Crosby’s pool, fully clothed. The moment was captured on video and didn’t take long to surface on Twitter.
Mario Lemieux jumping into Sidney Crosby's pool fully clothed. Let the summer of Stanley Cup celebrations begin. pic.twitter.com/0sZondids8
— Michael (@M_Shel6) June 13, 2017
As Greg Wyshynski of Yahoo Sports noted, Lemieux and the Stanley Cup and swimming pools go way back. He and his Penguins infamously partied with the Cup during their back-to-back wins, and it ended up in the bottom of his pool. “It doesn’t float,” teammate Phil Bourque told the Penguins website in 2008. “We put it in Mario’s pool and it sinks in a matter of 10 seconds. We didn’t want to hurt it because you got to respect the Cup, but you want have some fun with it too.”
Photo: Jeff Roberson/Associated Press.
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