You enter your stall one morning before an early practice and find your gear all wrapped in unholy amounts of duct tape. Nothing was actually damaged, and your coach doesn't acknowledge your lateness in getting on the ice, beyond trying not to smile. A brief investigation of your team's Xitter feed reveals the mascot as the culprit.

How do you get back at your mascot? Remember, this is a prank duel to drive social media engagement! Don't hurt your mascot or permanently prevent them from doing their job!


Since our mascot is quite literally a panther, Edžus is not going to hurt it EVEN if he wanted to. First of all, Ozolins will probably be lost because how in the hell can a panther wrap things up in duct tape, not even talking about the unholy side of things. Then, what Edzus could do is put some ice in the panther’s cage in order for it to learn what’s hockey. A panther (failing to achieve) ice skating would surely drive the engagement on social media way up! Who doesn't love a large, dangerous animal, looking very menacing, doing silly stuff such as failing to stay on all four due to ice?! That’d be a perfect prank for Edžus to do. A more simple thing could be to simply put some (a lot of) salt on the meat the panther would inevitably eat as a snack, simply to see the grimace it would make.

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