Evgeni Malkin and Sergei Gonchar flew in together to Vancouver. Geno denied rumors of a bumpy-adventure-filled ride which included emergency landing 200 kilometers away from the city. In his interview Geno said that he is hoping that his old number 11 will bring him good luck. He said he started out playing under that number when he was little in Magnitogorsk. When he made the master team he changed it to 71. However, his line mate Ilya Kovalchuk is wearing his number 71 so Geno decided to revert back to his old number. Besides Kovalchuk his other line mate will be Maxim Afinogenov.
When Geno was asked about Sidney Crosby he said that they are very good friends. They have been team mates for 4 years now and won Stanley Cup together. They have much respect for each other. However, if he gets a chance to check Crosby during Olympics he said he will do it and maybe even more than once.
Pavel Lysenkov took and posted some awesome pictures from yesterday’s practice on his blog. I also found awesome video of Geno on his blog if you want to know the story behind the video read here.
Below are the pictures he took. Enjoy! Here are some more links to awesome Vancouver related pics Pavel took and posted on his blog [1], [2], [3], [4] … you’d be doing yourself a huge disservice if you didn’t check out these pictures.
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