Let's Go Pens! Ru

Jarkko Ruutu was one of the NHL's greatest pests during his 11-season career. Two of those seasons were with the Pittsburgh Penguins, where Ruutu shared a locker room with forwards Colby Armstrong and Georges Laraque, both of whom are now retired.

And now, in his new Finnish-language book "The Divine Comedy," Ruutu shares one hell of a story about these two teammates which was excerpted on iltasanomat.fi.

From reader Krespo:

In this story he tells how, one day after practice, Georges Laraque stormed into the locker room absolutely furious, threatening to trash the place. Players gathered around and Laraque showed a picture pinned at his locker room stall - a drawing of a monkey with a banana.

So of course everybody started to freak out a bit, worried this could destroy the team. Laraque demanded to know who did it, and after a while, Colby Armstrong stepped up and admitted he did it.

Others wanted to know why would he do such a thing.

Armstrong replied: "What do you mean? He is a nigger, isn't he?"

Laraque just snapped and attacked Armstrong, and others tried to break them up, worried somebody might get seriously hurt. But suddenly it ended with Armstrong and Laraque laughing - it was just a prank, albeit a bit over the top. No one had suspected anything, since the guys had acted their parts so fine. But it was a hoax.

История одного розыгрыша. К вопросу, всё ли у нас так отстойно в раздевалке.

А чего тут интимного?

А Армстронг уже завершил карьеру? Недолго он играл. Спёкся в хлам?