拥有美国职业棒球大联盟波士顿红袜队和英超联赛利物浦队的芬威体育集团（FSG）已达成协议，收购美国国家冰球联盟匹兹堡企鹅队的控股权。
FSG 周一宣布了这一消息，并表示作为交易的一部分，冰球名人堂成员马里奥·勒米厄和罗恩·伯克尔将继续成为所有权集团的一部分。
“匹兹堡企鹅队是一支一流的国家冰球联盟球队，拥有非常强大的组织、辉煌的历史和充满活力、充满激情的球迷群，”FSG 主席汤姆沃纳在一份声明中说。
“我们将努力工作，继续发扬企鹅队卓越的锦标赛和激动人心的比赛传统。
“我们特别高兴地欢迎 Mario Lemieux 和 Ron Burkle 加入 FSG，并对他们为将企鹅队打造成我们今天所知的常年成功的球队所做的一切表示最大的敬意。
“我们期待与马里奥、罗恩和整个企鹅队前台团队合作。”
Lemieux 和 Burkle 于 1999 年购买了这支球队，并为匹兹堡提供了三座斯坦利杯。
Lemieux 在一份声明中说：“随着企鹅队进入新的篇章，我将继续像往常一样积极参与团队工作，并期待继续与 FSG 的新合作伙伴一起取得成功。”
“他们的组织理念反映了过去 22 年来对罗恩和我来说非常有效的方法。”
伯克尔补充道：“马里奥和我一起来到这里，我们很高兴成为新所有权集团的一员。匹兹堡企鹅队将与 FSG 保持良好关系，马里奥和我在这里支持他们，尽心尽力我们一直致力于特许经营的成功。”
出售必须得到 NHL 的批准。
Fenway Sports Group acquires NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins
(CNN)Fenway Sports Group (FSG), which owns Major League Baseball's Boston Red Sox and English Premier League team Liverpool, has reached an agreement to acquire controlling interest of the National Hockey League's Pittsburgh Penguins.
FSG made the announcement on Monday and said as part of the transaction, Hockey Hall of Famer, Mario Lemieux, along with Ron Burkle will remain part of the ownership group.
"The Pittsburgh Penguins are a premier National Hockey League franchise with a very strong organization, a terrific history and a vibrant, passionate fan base," FSG Chairman Tom Werner said in a statement.
"We will work diligently to continue building on the remarkable Penguins' tradition of championships and exciting play.
"We are particularly excited to welcome Mario Lemieux and Ron Burkle to FSG and have the utmost respect for all they have done to build the Penguins into the perennially successful franchise we know today.
"We look forward to working with Mario, Ron and the entire Penguins front office team."
Lemieux and Burkle purchased the team in 1999 and have delivered Pittsburgh three Stanley Cups.
"As the Penguins enter a new chapter, I will continue to be as active and engaged with the team as I always have been and look forward to continuing to build on our success with our incoming partners at FSG," Lemieux said in a statement.
"They have an organizational philosophy that mirrors the approach that worked so well for Ron and me over the past 22 years."
Burkle added: "Mario and I came in together, and we are excited to become a part of the new ownership group. The Pittsburgh Penguins will be in good hands with FSG, and Mario and I are here to support them, committed as much as we've always been to the success of the franchise."
The sale must be approved by the NHL.
