Enjoy our content? Join our newsletter to get the latest in sports news delivered straight to your inbox! Your sports. Join Newsletter. Since Geno has come to the NHL, he has done pretty damn well for himself. Let's look at a few of his accomplishments: Scores a goal the first six consecutive games of his career.
He's the first player to do that since He is still the only player to have done that. Won the Calder Cup which is the award for best rookie season, non-hockey readers Was named an alternate captain for the Pittsburgh Penguins in spite of the fact that he spoke almost no English. That's a lot. For non-hockey people, the point system in hockey works that you get one point for an assist and one for a goal.
That means Geno was helping score roughly twice a game. Which is lot. Completed the season with points. For reference, there are 82 games in the NHL season, which means Geno scored at least one goal or assist almost every game. For further reference, breaking points is extremely unusual. Every season maybe five to ten players in the NHL break He lost by six points to the same person who beat him out for the Hart - Alexander Ovechkin. Scored 22 points in the playoffs, helping take the Penguins to the Stanley Cup finals.
They lost to the Red Wings. Oh, irony, you bitch. This is his very stilted but extremely adorable acceptance speech, and if you can watch it and not get choked up, flap your hands, and squeal "MY BABY!!!! Geno turned out a solid but overall unremarkable season for the season, but the season didn't go well for him.
He did get to play in the Winter Classic HBO did a special on this, it's highly recommended viewing against the Capitals, which was cool, except then they lost that and Sidney Crosby ended up concussed, which was not cool. That's Geno at the Winter Classic, wearing the rarely-seen blue Penguins jersey.
As a fun fact of trivia, Sidney Crosby believes those jerseys are bad luck, since he's gotten both of his major injuries while wearing them. Because, you know, when someone else boards you so hard you tear a ligament, it's definitely your bad, Geno. What even. Here, let's look at Geno doing some sort of knee-related therapy in giant inflatable legs to make ourselves feel better: There we go. And then there was: A very good season for Geno! Let's take a look at a video the Pens put together that shows him training and being awesome and stuff.
Bonus, he wears shorty-short swim trunks. You're welcome, ladies and queer gentlemen: And then he accomplished a few things: Even though he missed seven games because of lingering knee problems, Geno still, for the first time in his career, broke the mark of fifty goals in a season.
Here is his fiftieth goal: Bam. And he had three hat tricks. In one season. No big. He was the only player in the season to break points he ended the season with , meaning he very easily walked away with the Art Ross. He also won both the Hart and the Ted Lindsay Award which is like the Hart, but it's as voted by the players, not Geno with his very modest array of hardware. For some extra adorable, here are Geno's acceptance speeches for the Ted Lindsay Award: And the Hart: Don't worry, that warm, fuzzy feeling in your chest is normal and not a medical condition.
But that's just his NHL career. He's picked up crazy amounts of awards for Russia in international play, both in Juniors and in international tournaments, but he hadn't won gold until this year, when he led Team Russia to, uh, I would call it "dominating" everyone else in the tournament, but that's probably like a massive understatement.
Still wearing Pens gear even in an international tournament! At around a. They told him that if he stayed in Russia, it would speed up the transfer agreement with the NHL and make better conditions for the Russian hockey federation. They kept repeating that he was a key player in the country, and he meant so much for the team and the Russian federation.
They told him: "'You cannot let the national team down. You have to stay for one more year, because everyone keeps so much hope for you. Velichkin and Mr. Kuprianov to leave me and my family alone. Malkin, who was barely twenty years old at the time, immediately regretted signing the contract, and was extremely upset. At some point after having signed, he sent Mr. Kuprianov a text saying that, "On this night, you killed my dream. That morning, after the team officials had left, Malkin called Barry to explain what had happened and asked him to help him get out of his contract.
They were going to need Malkin's passport, which was temporarily in the custody of Malkin's former Russian agent Sergei Isakov, in connection with acquiring a Canadian visa. Shortly after Malkin was pressured into signing the new contract, Isakov handed his passport over to Velichkin, who confiscated it and refused to give it back.
Believing he was intending to stay with the club, and realising he'd need his passport to get through customs, the club returned Malkin's passport when on Saturday 12 August , he flew with his team to Helsinki, Finland, for a pre-season camp. When they reached the airport, Malkin excused himself for a bathroom break, and through the chaos of passport control and baggage claim, his teammates didn't notice he was missing until they were leaving the airport.
Assisted by a Finnish security company, Malkin, Barry, and McQueen snuck out of the airport and relocated to an apartment where they stayed hidden for four days while waiting for Malkin's American visa from the US Embassy. We didn't want that to happen. It was really necessary for us to keep him away from that possibility. According to Barry, the type of psychological pressure included the club having Malkin followed whenever the team believed he'd been in contact with his North-American agents, though Barry couldn't say who exactly had been following his client.
Malkin kept his plan to leave Russia and Metallurg a secret from everyone but Barry. Initially, it was believed that not even his parents, his older brother Denis, or his Russian representative Ushakov knew about it, [20] but in a documentary from , Malkin revealed that he told his mother but that they didn't tell his father because they thought he would be worried.
Some fanfictions even add a marriage component to his grand plan of escape usually to Sidney Crosby. Although in canon , Malkin and his old team made up during the —13 NHL lockout Malkin went back and played for Metallurg Magnitogorsk during the lockout. Even to this day, Malkin still speaks fragmented English in most fanfictions. One tumblr post tried to analyze the pattern behind his way of speaking from a Russian speaker's perspective, so that writers can get a better grasp of portraying him.
In some stories, Malkin uses Russian words here and there while speaking in English. Fanfics like to put Malkin on Crosby's line as a winger, and emphasize their psychic-like bond in reading each other's play on the ice.
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