Reaching out to common friends

Silly question, but how do y'all approach reaching out to people that you share common friends with? Someone, X, told me to reach out to his friend, Y. Do i follow the same cold outreach format? Or should i just tell him that i got his contact through our common friend and wanted to reach out/connect/? 

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