'HBK Line' reunites to meet WWE women's champion

Carl Hagelin, Nick Bonino, Phil Kessel compare championship belts with Sasha Banks

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By NHL.com @NHLdotcom

The "HBK Line" of Carl Hagelin, Nick Bonino and Phil Kessel carried the Pittsburgh Penguins to the Stanley Cup and helped ignite a unique bond between Pittsburgh and the WWE last spring.

That bond was renewed Friday when Hagelin, Bonino and Kessel got to hang out with WWE women's champion Sasha Banks and compare their championship belts.

Banks is in Pittsburgh for the upcoming event Roadblock: End of the Line event at PPG Paints Arena on Sunday.
Kessel, Bonino and Hagelin haven't spent much time on the same line this season, but they dominated during the Penguins' run through the Stanley Cup Playoffs and turned former WWE-superstar Shawn Michaels, whose nickname was HBK, for Heart Break Kid, into a Penguins fan.
WWE superstar and executive vice president Triple H even had a WWE championship belt sent to the Penguins after they clinched the Stanley Cup on June 12.

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