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Jake Kuzyk going “so huge”.

When Pens winger Phil Kessel arrived at Ricoh Coliseum for Pittsburgh’s optional practice on Friday, he was met with a surprise.

Instead of finding his gear in a locker stall, it was set up on a chair outside of the locker room, complete with a case of Coke-a-Cola, cups for coffee, some signs and a big sign above it all reading “The Phil Zone.”

The prank was the brainchild of center Evgeni Malkin and head equipment manager Dana Heinze.

The backstory is this. On Thursday the Pens were playing against the New Jersey Devils at Prudential Center. However, there were only 24 locker stalls available and 25 players in attendance.

Heinze approached Malkin out of respect and asked if he would mind being placed in a chair, since he was not playing that evening against the Devils. Malkin, of course, was fine with it.

Heinze set out to find “the nicest chair possible,” and set up his gear on the seat. As the team arrived for the morning skate, Kessel began chirping both Heinze and Malkin. He even tweeted a pic of the seat saying: “Pigeon couldn’t even get a regular stall.”

So Malkin and Heinze put their heads together for some payback.

“It wasn’t my idea. It was Dana. He said we need to answer,” Malkin said. “I wanted to answer today and Dana helped me.”

That’s all the way fucked up lady should be under the jail. 

This is heartbreaking.

He is a man of his word, he promised us he will donate $1M and he’s doing it. He’s one of those black celebrities, who care.Using your platform and your opportunities to help others is a really beautiful thing. Celebrities chose for themselves whether they will do something about social issues or not and Colin Kaepernick made his choice once he took a knee for all the victims of racism during the National Anthem. And what he’s doing now is just one more proof he is a generous and amazing person, who saves lives. He’s the one to look up to for new generations.