Picture this - 1-25-09
This will probably cause EN to take 21 hours to load today, but so what. There are plenty of good photos on the wire from yesterday's festivities:
-The skill competition winners. From left to right; Andrew Cogliano, Shane Doan, Alex Ovechkin, Zdeno Chara and Evgeni Malkin. Malkin is 6-foot-3 and look how small he appears next to Chara. Yeesh:
(Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
-Happy times for Malkin:
(Mike Stobe/Getty Images)
-Zdeno Chara unleashing hell:
(Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
-Carey Price. We had to take a second look at that sign too:
(Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
-Shane Doan looking surprised:
(Nick Laham/Getty Images)
-Not so happy times for Malkin:
(Paul Chiasson/Associated Press)
-"Dude, seriously... They. Drown. Puppies...."
(Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
-This kid bit his tounge and was suspended by Gary Bettman for missing the fastest skater competition:
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-Malkin juggling the puck:
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-Kris Letang signing an autograph for who we suspect is the daughter of Allegheny County Councilman John DeFazio.
(Richard Wolowicz/Getty Images)
-Wowza:
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-Roberto Luongo concentrating:
(Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
-Alex Ovechkin has some bad hat hair:
(Richard Wolowicz/Getty Images)
-Alex Kovalev meanwhile has puck hair:
(Mike Stobe/Getty Images)
-Jeff Carter attempting to convince Brian Campbell to pick up some puppies at the duty free:
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-Zdeno Chara and teammate Marc Savard. We think:
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-Vincent Lecavalier getting it all:
(Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
-Malkin showing off his All-Star duds:
(Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
-Letang getting denied by Pekka Rinne:
(Richard Wolowicz/Getty Images)
-Heads up:
(Mike Stobe/Getty Images)
-Introducing Evgeni Malkin:
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-Mike Modano apparently has some hygiene issues in the eyes (or nose) of Mike Babcock:
(Dave Sandford/Getty Images)
-Mason Raymond shooting against Rinne:
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-Malkin attempting to poison Ovechkin:
(Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press)
-Flames mascot Harvey the Hound sporting a Canada Cup jersey:
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-Slapshot, the Capitals mascot, attempting to scalp some tickets to what he believes are Penguins fans:
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-So many caption possibilities with this photo and most of them would get us fired:
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-Mike Modano is accurate:
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-Henrik Lundqvist stopping Dustin Brown:
(Mike Stobe/Getty Images)
-Shane Doan fighting off a chokehold from a Flyers fan in disguise:
(Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press)
-Shea Weber getting some mad torque on his stick:
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-Ilya Kovalchuk telling Malkin a story that involves the words "Hossa" and "loyalty."
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-While Rick Nash and Shea Weber don't seem to mind, Sheldon Souray isn't too happy about taking pictures:
(Nick Laham/Getty Images)
-Is Patrick Kane technically going five hole here:
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-This kid will be a Shane Doan fan for the rest of his life:
(Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)