Pens fall to Montreal CanadiEns 5-3.
Pascal Dupuis (13) and Bill Guerin (17) both had a goal. Evgeni Malkin (20) with a beautiful goal coming out of penalty box on a break away. Seems like Fluery never fully recovered after the first goal which should have been an interference call. He was pulled after 4th goal against him and Brent Johnson took his place. Crosby reached 300 assists in his NHL career.
Now here is something to cheer you up. Thanks to Evgeni Malkin Girlfriend forums for this one. I found the following images and a funny story behind them showing typical Geno’s funny side. The article is from sovsport.ru and is in Russain but i will translate the funny part. Hope it makes you smile!
Story Behind Pictures – “Geno write, ‘I Love My Coach’ ”
At the end of the interview i asked Malkin to participate in a photo session. At first I wanted to take a picture of Malkin with Mario Lemieux – who is heart and soul of Pittsburgh Penguins. Even Mellon Arena is located on the street named after Mario.
Super Mario is owner of Pittsburgh Penguins and every so often after games he comes into the locker room. However, its strictly prohibited for media personnel to bother Mario. If Mario gives interview to one reporter than all of them come rushing in after. As a result Mario would forget his role of being quiet and retired millionaire and would turn into a “talking head”.
“Unfortunately, you can’t even take pictures with Mario. We are not going to bother him.” we were told.
To my reporters luck into the locker room walked in Sidney Crosby. He already put on his suit, fixed his blue tie, and styled his hair with gel. He gladly agreed to take a picture with his friend Geno.
“Is it ok if Geno is half a head taller than i am?” – jokingly asked Sidney.
… After that i asked Geno to write “To Vancouver!” on the board with a marker since in a week Olympics are starting.
Geno agreed. While he was busy enthusiastically writing the message, head coach Dan Bylsma walked by. He noticed that someone dared to write something on the board where he usually draws his game plans. “I love coach!” – exclaimed Dan in hopes that is what Geno is writing.
Geno translated, “Dan said that i am GREAT and an awesome Russian guy!”
Geno added a message for fans, “Cheer for us! Lets hope you have a great spirit that we can feed on. In return we will make you happy!”
Caps tomorrow!
LETS GO PENS!!!
Tags: Bill Guerin, Brent Johnson, Dan Bylsma, Evgeni Malkin, Marc Andre Fleury, Pascal Dupuis, Sidney Crosby
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