More importantly, I’m fairly certain this is the photoshoot in which THIS happened:
After three hours in a photo studio with Alexander Ovechkin, posing in light that flattered them almost as much as their statistics from incandescent rookie seasons in 2005–06, Crosby tugged his black number 87 Penguins sweater over his head, held it out to Ovechkin, clothed in his Capitals gear, and asked almost shyly, “Want to trade?”
More importantly, I’m fairly certain this is the photoshoot in which THIS happened:
After three hours in a photo studio with Alexander Ovechkin, posing in light that flattered them almost as much as their statistics from incandescent rookie seasons in 2005–06, Crosby tugged his black number 87 Penguins sweater over his head, held it out to Ovechkin, clothed in his Capitals gear, and asked almost shyly, “Want to trade?”
“What do you think it means to be a Toronto Maple Leafs fan?”
“That’s a good question. I think it’s your childhood, i think it’s your youth, I think it’s growing up. I think it’s not just a fandom, it’s like who you are and what your being is about, what your growing up is about. And just being a part of it, man.”
The team representing the League of Women’s Hockey, Russia’s top amateur women’s hockey circuit, takes the ice earlier this month in Red Square for an exhibition game against a squad from the Office of the Kremlin Commandant. The women’s team emerged victorious in the end, 5-4! (Image Source)
someone: what’s better than watching your favorite teams win
me: watching my least favorite teams lose
Like Hayley Wickenheiser and many other unsung female hockey stars, CWHL athletes play for the love of the game. While NHL players are getting annual paycheques in the millions, top-notch women hockey players are not being paid a cent — not even those who have earned five Olympic medals, a feat unmatched by any male hockey player.
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