Penguins retrieve lacking Jaromir Jagr bobblehead dolls

The lacking Jaromir Jagr bobblehead dolls are lacking no extra. The Pittsburgh Penguins introduced Monday they’ve secured the lacking cargo of bobblehead dolls that the workforce had reported as stolen on March 14.

In accordance with Penguins president of enterprise operations Kevin Acklin, the workforce was notified final week that “a particular cargo restoration workforce negotiated the return of the stolen property to a safe warehouse situated in Ontario, California.”

The truckload of Jagr bobbleheads arrived in Pittsburgh on Monday, and they’re anticipated to be delivered to PPG Paints Enviornment inside the subsequent week.

“One other chapter within the storied historical past of the Penguins. Keep tuned for particulars on a film take care of Jean-Claude Van Damme,” Acklin stated on social media. Van Damme’s 1995 motion movie “Sudden Dying” passed off contained in the workforce’s former enviornment throughout a Penguins playoff sport.

The workforce realized it was the sufferer of cargo theft after it didn’t obtain the cargo of Jagr bobblehead dolls — depicting the NHL legend together with his well-known “salute” celebration — as scheduled earlier than its sport towards the visiting San Jose Sharks on March 14. The bobblehead night time was a part of a seamless celebration of Jagr’s legacy with the Penguins, for whom he performed 11 seasons and gained two Stanley Cups. His No. 68 was retired in February.

The Penguins stated they reached out to each the producer and the transportation corporations and alerted state and federal authorities in an effort to find the stolen cargo.

Jagr had some enjoyable with the theft, serving to the Penguins produce a social media clip that featured him and a bobblehead doll hitting the street to seek for the stolen cargo.

“Whereas this unlucky incident provides to the legend of Jaromir Jagr, we look ahead to resolving this theft and delivering the prized Jagr bobbleheads to their rightful houses, with our followers,” Acklin stated on the time.

Followers who attended the March 14 sport obtained vouchers with a one-time scannable barcode to obtain a Jagr bobblehead at a later date.

The workforce stated the recovered bobbleheads will likely be given to followers holding these vouchers on the Penguins’ April 6 sport towards the visiting Tampa Bay Lightning and on April 7, when the workforce will maintain a “a drive-thru pick-up possibility” at PPG Paints Enviornment from 10:00 a.m. till 2:00 p.m. native time.