Picture this - 1-26-09
We're hardly friends to the All-Star Lame Game. But one cool thing about ii is the amount of quality photos that come out of it.
-Evgeni Malkin shooting between his legs:
(Dave Sandford/Getty Images)
-Malkin getting fancy with the puck:
(Dave Sandford/Getty Images)
-This gentleman on the video board has a brother. He has three of them in fact:
(Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press)
-Look at all those banners:
(Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press)
-Jeff Taffe went to some really odd lengths to get to the All-Star Lame Game:
(Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press)
-Ducks goaltender Jean-Sebastien Gigure just looks like completely beaten man in this photo:
(Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press)
-New Jersey's Zach Parise getting one by Minnesota's Niklas Backstrom:
(Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press)
-Washington's Alex Ovechkin squeezing the winning shootout goal by Vancouver's Roberto Luongo:
(Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press)
-Montreal's Alex Kovalev holding up some new hardware:
(Paul Chiasson/Canadian Press)
-Habs goaltender Carey Price might've actually had more luck last night if he used this stance most of the game:
(Richard Wolowicz/Getty Images)
-Kovalev is a beloved man in Montreal:
(Dave Sandford/Getty Images)
-Tampa Bay's Vincent Lecavalier tries to guess the height of his teammate Martin St. Louis:
(Dave Sandford/Getty Images)
-Backstrom apparently has some depth perception issues:
(Nick Laham/Getty Images)
-Kovalev sitting in a truck well below his tax bracket:
-According to Greg Wyshynski of Yahoo!, Kovalev plans on auctioning the new wheels for charity. Kovalev = Good people.
(Dave Sandford/Getty Images)
-Is it us, or does Backstrom's helmet sort of look like Ed Belfour's from his days with the Blackhawks. Except with a bear instead of an eagle which are two very closely related species within the animal kingdom. We think:
(Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
-Belfour:
(Photobucket)
-Your Russian Eastern Conference All-Stars. From left to right - Malkin, Montreal's Andrei Markov, Kovalev, Atlanta's Ilya Kovalchuk and Ovechkin:
(Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
-Unlike say, oh... Milan Lucic, Blades is one Bruin not afraid to get up close with former Penguins goon Georges Laraque:
(Nick Laham/Getty Images)
-Captain Kovalev:
(Dave Sandford/Getty Images)
-We don't want to say Blues forward Keith Tkachuk is ugly... but...
(Dave Sandford/Getty Images)
-Three former top overall picks. From left to right - Lecavalier (1998), San Jose's Joe Thornton (1997) and Ovechkin (2004):
(Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
-Kovalchuk keeping his head up against Anaheim's Scott Niedermayer:
(Dave Sandford/Getty Images)