#71 geno

[muppetjohntavares]

Another time, another life🍁🐧 (Michael Bunting in Toronto and Pittsburgh, requested by anonymous)

(Picture credit to Andrew Lahodynskyj, Bailey McLean, Joe Sargent and Icon Sportswire)

#thank you for the request nonnie!!! i wish i could have made a full mitch/auston/sid/geno parallel #but sadly there arent that many pens pics of bunts yet :c so i hope this one scratches the itch! it sure made me sad #michael bunting #toronto maple leafs #maple leafs #pittsburgh penguins #evgeni malkin #auston matthews #muppet edits #muppet edits leafs edition #muppet edits pens edition #8 bunts #34 auston #71 geno #leafs #pens

[zhenya71]

Walk, walk, fashion baby.

Love how G looks right into the camera, like: Yeah, I'm all that.

#evgeni malkin #geno #sidney crosby #87 #71 #pittsburgh penguins #my gifs

[titlefightpens]

that photo of geno that his wife posted…lolll she really was like here’s my husband, like ALL of him

#nhl #geno malkin #happy birthday 71!!

[freebooter4ever]

Fuck this one #71 pretender in particular

#71 on 71 violence? #Boots penguins liveblog #On an unrelated note look how wide and strong geno's stance is

[hunterrrs]

i assume sid’s breathless, squirmy 71-page treatise on how big and dominant geno is had to be redacted in its entirety

#i hope his teammates heap love and appreciation on him today #evgeni malkin #sidney crosby #rickard rakell #lars eller #ryan graves #pittsburgh penguins

[goaliekisses]

Malkin’s teammates share what sets him apart; favorite memories before his 1,000th game

they’re all like ‘he’s so BIG AND FUNNY AND BEAUTIFUL’ and sid is like, repeatedly ‘he’s so DOMINATING also let me rattle off a list of my favorite geno goals and also did i mention, he’s so dominating? i’m so lucky to have seen them close up i’ll cherish them forever (like i cherish him)’

Sidney Crosby still remembers the first time he saw Evgeni Malkin play.

It was the 2005 World Junior Championship in Grand Forks, North Dakota. It was the second World Junior appearance for both Crosby and Malkin, but the two hadn't gone head-to-head in the tournament in Helsinki, Finland the year prior. They finally met in the gold medal game, with Crosby and Team Canada winning the tournament with a 6-1 victory over Malkin and Russia.

Malkin made his World Championship debut with the senior Russian team later that season. Watching that tournament, Crosby couldn't help but take notice again of the young Russian prospect who had been drafted by the Penguins the year before.

"He was just dominating," Crosby recalled when I sat down with him earlier this week. "He was just 18 then. I thought he was pretty special from the first time I saw him play."

Crosby and Kris Letang were both drafted by the Penguins that summer, and Crosby made his NHL debut in the season that followed. Letang and Malkin joined Crosby in Pittsburgh a season later, and the three have been together now for 17 seasons.

Through Malkin' career 999 games, he's amassed 451 goals, 714 assists and 1,165 points, ranking No. 3 all-time in franchise history in each category behind Mario Lemieux and Crosby. When the puck drops for the Penguins' game against the Blackhawks in Chicago on Sunday, Malkin will join Crosby in the record books as the only players in franchise history to play 1,000 games with the Penguins.

I spoke with Crosby, Letang and a number of other teammates of Malkin about what makes Malkin so special and some of their favorite memories of Malkin over the years.

Crosby remembers it being "pretty hard to communicate" with Malkin during those early years together, when Malkin's English was extremely limited. Still, that didn't stop Malkin from quietly tagging along with his teammates when everyone would hang out outside of the rink.

"I mean, he didn't say anything," Letang said. "He would just come and have dinner and not say a word. He would just say the same thing, 'hamburger,' all the time. ... He was so shy earlier on and didn't speak much, but his humor is funny, like joking around making fun of everyone."

Letang was a little amused recalling that Malkin insisted on his teammates calling him "71" rather than his name back then.

Players who made their debuts with the Penguins later in Malkin's career remember being a little intimidated by Malkin at first.

"Obviously, you're pretty scared," Jake Guentzel said with a laugh about his first time meeting Malkin. "He's a superstar. My first game I sat alongside him and Phil (Kessel), I think you get pretty nervous. You don't want to mess up."

"It was a lot of intimidation on my part," Bryan Rust said. "I was probably feel a little nervous to meet him, just a guy of his stature both physically and with what he's done."

Brian Dumoulin said that he felt like he was "tiptoeing" around Malkin early on, and was a little nervous being around someone of Malkin's stature, until he realized he just had to talk to Malkin like any other person.

"I wouldn't say he's the most outgoing guy when you first get to know him," Dumoulin said. "It takes some time to get to know him and for him to open up and for you. I remember people were saying to Geno, like 'Why don't you say hi?' He's like, 'Why don't you say hi to me?' That's kind of how it was for 'G'. I mean, you've got to approach him just like anyone else. That's how he wants to be treated."

A common trend in players' first interactions with Malkin is Malkin getting their names wrong, much to the amusement of his teammates.

"It's such a Geno thing to do, to not remember names," Kasperi Kapanen said. "I don't know, I actually should go ask him now to see if he remembers my first name or not."

Consensus seems to be that Malkin's gotten better with names over the years, but it's still a bit of a running gag for a teammate to ask him what a newer teammate's name is to see what he says. Marcus Pettersson remembers being in the stick room with Patric Hornqvist in his first week after being traded to the Penguins when Malkin walked in the room. Hornqvist pointed to Pettersson and asked Malkin what his name was. Malkin paused, then pointed to the stick Pettersson was holding, and read the "Pettersson" label out loud. Players used to do the same at the yearly rookie parties, making it a game to see if Malkin knows the actual names of the younger players. He might know a guy as "Rusty" or "Dumo," but beyond that?

"That's the thing," Dumoulin said with a laugh. "He might not know my first and my last name, but he knows my nickname, you know? That's all that really matters, I don't care. He doesn't have to know my name or anything like that. It's pretty funny."

Some players think that Malkin's notoriously bad memory with names might be a little bit of an act, given his sense of humor.

"He called me 'goalie' for the longest time," Casey DeSmith said. "He's definitely a character in the room. I remember the first time he said like, 'Good game Casey' I was like, (shocked face) 'What'd you say?!'"

"He just kept calling me Jack," Guentzel laughed, recalling his rookie year. "I don't know if he was just messing around with me, playing a prank on a young guy. But it was just funny, because nobody really knows."

When you ask players what makes Malkin so special or how they'd describe him, it's that sense of humor that is often mentioned first. He keeps his teammates laughing, and keeps the room light.

"There's no filter," Letang said of Malkin. "It comes out raw with that kind of broken English. It's the broken English that makes it funny."

"His sense of humor, I think is awesome," Rust said. "He just kind of sticks to himself, he's kind of quiet most of the time. Then all of a sudden, he'll just start cracking jokes, he'll just kind of pop in there just at the right time. He has the whole room laughing."

"Every day, he always says something," Kapanen said. "He's got those one-liners that make everybody laugh, and he's just a funny, fun guy to be around. He's one of the funnier guys I've ever met. So it's been a pleasure to be here with him.

"He's always got some smartass comment to make or something sarcastic," DeSmith said.

"He's spontaneous," Tristan Jarry said. "He's just always yelling, always getting the guys to laugh."

On the ice, it's Malkin's passion, drive and skill that get mentioned by his teammates as what sets him apart.

"It's just his natural ability," DeSmith said

"He's generational talent," Jarry said. "Being able to watch him every day in practice and in every game, it's something special."

"He's passionate," said Rust. "He loves coming here and he loves playing hockey. He loves being with this team, in this organization, in the city. You can see it when he's playing well, you can see it when he's playing bad. He just wears his emotions on his sleeve and he just wants this team, he wants himself, and he wants everybody else to do so well. You can see how much he cares."

Pettersson compared Malkin to a train, and spoke about admiring that same passion Rust spoke of.

"He's fire," Pettersson said. "He's like a locomotive when he takes over the game, he's so powerful the way he drives the puck. I just think about whenever he gets fired up on the ice, scores a big goal or something like that. Like when we were in Toronto and he had a pretty bad tripping call on him then scored. When he gets fired up, he creates so much energy for us and it's fun to see him in beast mode when he gets like that."

Dumoulin said that Malkin is a "magician" with what he's able to do on the ice.

"Pittsburgh is very lucky and I think I'm very lucky to be able to watch him play for so long," Dumoulin said. "I mean, on the ice, he's the magician. You never really know what he's going to do with the puck, whether it be D zone, offensive zone, neutral zone. It's just fun to watch him get the puck and just go. He's always a game changer every time he's out there. It's exciting to watch."

"I think of him as a beast," Letang said. "He's just so strong, so big, skilled. He's kind of unstoppable when he's playing well."

Crosby said that if he had to choose one word to describe Malkin, it would be "dominant."

"The way he can take over a game is pretty rare," Crosby said. "There's not too many guys who can do that, and he's done it for a long time."

Crosby said that he has "tons" of favorite on-ice memories of Malkin, with a big one being his first NHL goal against the Devils in 2006.

"Then against Tampa, when he walked through everybody," Crosby added, referring to this goal in 2012.

"Edmonton, the spin-o-rama," Crosby said, talking about this goal from 2015.

"That Carolina game, the hat trick he had in the playoffs," Crosby said, on Malkin's performance in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Final in 2009.

"I've been lucky," Crosby reflected. "I got to see a lot of those close up. Those are memories that I'll cherish forever."

Letang mentioned Malkin's entire performance in the 2009 playoffs -- when Malkin led the team in scoring with 14 goals and 22 assists in 24 games -- as one of his favorite memories. He also named Malkin's goal in the last game of the 2011-12 regular season against the Flyers: It was the first (and only) time Malkin hit the 50-goal mark in his career, and capped off a regular season in which Malkin won the Art Ross Trophy as the league's leading scorer, the Hart Memorial Trophy as the league MVP, and the Ted Lindsay as the league's top player as voted by the players.

Letang was asked what he thinks Malkin's legacy will be in Pittsburgh, and he thought it was a tough question to answer. He mentioned the three Stanley Cups they won together, and Malkin's impending 1,000th game, but said that Malkin's legacy to him will be something different.

"I don't remember those guys for the hockey part," he said. "I remember those guys for being with them. He's funny. He's hilarious. He's loud in his own way."

If one were to make a Mount Rushmore of the top four Penguins in franchise history, Malkin would surely be on it. His skill, dominance and passion are what has made him one of the greatest to ever play for the Penguins. But it's who he is off the ice that has him so beloved by his teammates.

#HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE SO BEAUTIFUL AND FUNNY AND TALENTED #THEY LOVE HIM ahhhhhh #i love him #evgeni malkin #sidney crosby #kris letang #tristan jarry #jake guentzel #brian dumoulin #marcus pettersson #kasperi kapanen #pittsburgh penguins

[hockeymarriage]

also thinking about a fic where no one remembers Geno exists. Sid sort of notices him in the locker room and is like "fuck I forgot the new trade's name uhhh" and goes over to introduce himself. and Geno looks up at him with a haunted but hopeful expression, and Sid doesn't understand why his new teammate is looking at him with... way too many emotions.

Sid's brain tries to make sense of Geno's ghost-like presence on the team, but things just don't add up. Geno creates a lot of opportunities on his line but even when he has a shot he never takes it, he always just passes to his wingers. "Can't score," Geno tells him with a shrug, which. what??

Geno never comes out with the team. Sid tries to talk to others about Geno but they get confused and, ouch, Sid gets a terrible headache. he keeps getting distracted. watching Geno on tape feels like his brain is splitting in two, like he has a concussion without ever taking a hit.

he's feeling much better the next day. there's a newcomer at practice the next day, 71. shit, Sid definitely should remember his name so he can welcome him to the team properly.

#sidgeno #my writing #just need to whump geno so badly

[gofancyninjaworld]

Sorry to bother, but do you happen to have that one manga drawing of Genos where (I think) he's being repaired but he has wires coming from like everywhere ? I can't remember which volume its from and thought you might know

Not a bother. At first, I thought you were asking about a fanart, and I was about to post this:

Then I got some actual coffee in me. Three come to mind.

At the end of Volume 5, when Genos is being pieced back together after the Deep Sea King. For some reason, it makes some people horny, but it makes me sad -- he really suffered. :(

Genos being a bit of a brat at the beginning of Volume 10, going back to the shop for more upgrades because he's butt-hurt about not having been able to squash Sonic. Nothing's wrong with him, he's just crying for sweeties.

At the end of chapter 184 (182 on Shuiesha), finally having the body he needs to return fully to work. We'll see how long this one lasts.

Additionally, there is an independent work of art by Murata that appears at the front of chapter 71 but features a body that doesn't appear anywhere within the story.

For completeness, the only place such a scene appears in the webcomic is at the end of chapter 106.

#OPM #official art #Genos #manga #webcomic #asks #replies #sorry this took so long

[rimouskis]

this question is NOT about the hockey players themselves. it's about a random civilian wearing their jersey.

#To Me the answer has always been clear

[fuckablerobotbracket]

Round 2 matchups!

High(er) res: [Side A] [Side B] [Side C]

Gonna get started on queueing these bad boys tonight. My goal is for Side A to drop on Friday. This is still a TON of polls so I'm going to stick to one side per day. Each poll will be 24 hours, same as last time. As a reminder, there will eventually be a losers' bracket, so no worries if your character was eliminated in the first round.

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Side A

Genos/The Sorcerer

2B/BT-7274

R.O.B./Revenant

SR-71/Genji

Victor/Xcelerator

Nemesis/Disaster Transport

Balin/Voyager

Toyota 8FGCU20/Canadarm

Lacey/Six

Shodan/K2SO

Mettaton/GLaDOS

Zenyatta/Evac

General Grievous/Roxanne Wolf

Soundwave/Shockwave

Springtrap/Starscream

C3PO/Sun/Moon

Side B

Bubs/T.O.M. 3

Swordsmachine/P03

Von Roll 101/Momo

Inspector Gadget/HAL 9000

Perseverance/Marvin

Edgar/Viktor

Xbot 4000/Roberta

ART/Perihelion/Fey

Legion/AM

Fisto/Nick Valentine

James Webb Space Telescope/Ash

Tasque Manager/Stabby the Roomba

Queen/The Smiler

Bender/Calculester

TARS/Aunt Fanny

Belisarius Cawl/Karen

Side C

Robot/Light Hope

T800/Machinedramon

Fl4K/Lady Parsec

Ramattra/CCaldarius

The Starship Aurora/Synergy

Bastion/Emperor Nefarious

Data/V1

Sundry Sidney/Batou

Phineas T. Ratchet/Seven Red Suns

Curie/Bigweld

EVE (Wall-E)/Queen Vexus

AUTO/Atlas

Frank/L0U13

Robotman/Robo Ky

Aigis/Hera

K_K/Samuel Hayden

#fuckablerobotbracket

[butterflyintochains]

Penguins Numerology

Something myself and @tangerisms were talking about a few days ago, so I wanna put some thoughts down. Should be working on my Sister of Kris Letang story, but my back is too sore. So, here I am.

87 - in classical numerology, the number 87 concerns the nurturing and maintenance of family. It has deep parental instinct, and is deeply protective of those it considers family, 87 is a protector and a leader. 'It's me and Geno', 'There's no doubt in my mind (about Kris)' come to mind.

71 - The number 71 is business oriented, deeply practical, and a realist at heart. Seeing the bigger picture and wanting to build something that will outlive itself. 71 is deeply independent, and moves at its own pace, open to advice, but will ultimately make its own mind up. 'Malkin is currently trying to avoid press'

58 - Also is concerned with planning for the future, but has a more light side to it, business minded when it comes to building a secure foundation for the future, but has a positive outlook on life once the work is done. 58 finds pleasure in hard work, and has a strong sense of personal dignity. 'I've given everything for this team'

65 - Loves to be part of a family and nurture their family. Also, 65 deeply values being part of a greater unit and likes the feeling of companionship. 65 is also adaptable, and handles change well, having a natural sense of adventure. 'Pittsburgh feels like home right away'.

29 - Is not scared of change or progress, and has a deeply humanitarian outlook on life. 29 is also openly ambitious in their goals in life, and wants to collaborate with others towards a greater goal, 29 seeks constant improvement in life for those it cares about. See Flower's Native American mask.

@tangerisms @simmyfrobby What do you guys think? Should I do the others/one for the Canucks? This was fun!

#pittsburgh penguins #sidney crosby #evgeni malkin #kris letang #erik karlsson #marc andre fleury

[idontlikeem]

did you see the stat that apparently geno has recorded a point in 71% of his 1000 games??? he’s a witch too like sid

they’re both insane 🥰🥰🥰

#pens lb #evgeni malkin

[freebooter4ever]

LOL did sid really hit #8's leg?? I was joking about the sacrificing knees thing.

#I guess when geno isnt available #There was no goal though #Number 8 is no number 71 #Side note what do they do if two players with the same number are picked for the all star game? #Do they make someone change? #Hockey boots liveblog

[tangerisms]

no thoughts only how sid, geno, tanger, and erik's numbers fit together with each other (65/58/87/71)

#i am So normal about them guys i swear #i swear im not going insane i promise #call me sidney crosby the way i be going bonkers over numbers #sidney crosby #evgeni malkin #kris letang #erik karlsson #scar rambles

[intheupside]

Flyers defenseman Egor Zamula played for the Metallurg Magnitogorsk U17 team "with the same number as Geno, 71. Back home, I play in school in Magnitogorsk, it’s his hometown. I’ve been waiting for this chance to play against him, so it’s going to be fun.”

#egor zamula #philadephia flyers #evgeni malkin #pittsburgh penguins

[theo-is-dumb]

Sorry Sid sat on a player wearing 71. He thought it was Geno...

#pens lb