Athletistic/Hockey. Evgeni Malkin helped Pittsburgh defeat Dallas in the NHL regular season game. “Penguins” won the meeting with the score 2:1, and the Russian striker scored the winning goal.
In 29 games this season, Malkin scored 29 (9+20) points. The 36-year-old striker is marked by effective actions in six fights in a row.
Here’s how Malkin’s play was rated by Pittsburgh fans on social media:
Jobeycool:
– It’s just unreal! Fantastic game.
Ncm7772:
– Gino machine!
logic:
– Taste this sweet sensation, Gino. Taste it to the fullest.
BigEezyE22:
– Well, who here said we can’t trust Gino in late games?
Vodeni:
– Wow, finally Gino started moving!
Ice Cap:
– To be honest, I’m disappointed. Such an exciting fight deserved overtime. And a series of shootings. Just kidding… just a little more and someone would shoot me and get me out of my misery.
Andy99:
– This game belonged to Gino. He gave his best, got some outs on himself, and it’s symbolic that he was the one who managed to score the game-winning goal in the end. The guy gave a perfect answer to all of his villains.
Gurglesons:
– Incredibly happy to see that Malkin got a good game. Very well done.
Andy99:
– We can only thank Malkin for his performance in this meeting.
Swap:
– It’s probably too early to say that with this victory we sent a message to all league rivals, but, in any case, it turned out really cool. At the same time, I’m very happy that it was Gino who scored the winning goal.
DocEmrickSkitters:
– It was Malkin’s best fight in terms of defensive actions with… in fact, I can’t even remember since when. Maybe in defense he looked cooler than all of our forwards. No really, when was the last time this happened? I’m glad he was rewarded for his diligence.
Ice Cap:
– If in the days of Evgeni Malkin and Sidney Crosby, those players got away with injury-free, then Pittsburgh would already have 69 Stanley Cups.
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Malkin is a three-time Stanley Cup winner (2009, 2016, 2017) with the Pittsburgh Penguins, two-time world champion (2012 and 2014), participating in three Olympic Games (2006, 2010, 2014). Honorary Master of Sports of Russia (2012).
A student of the Magnitogorsk hockey school “Metallurg”. 2004 Junior World Champion. Double silver medalist at the Junior World Championships. Silver and bronze medalist of the championships of Russia in the “Metallurg” in Magnitogorsk. Double world champion, best player of the 2012 World Cup.
Drafted 2nd overall by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft. Since 2006, he has played for the Penguins, as the club’s alternate captain.
2006/07 NHL Rookie of the Year. The first Russian player to win the Conn Smythe Trophy. He ranks third among Russian hockey players in NHL regular season points, as well as second in goals and first in playoff points scored.
Malkin’s first match at the top level of the Russian league was Metallurg’s guest match with Yaroslavl Lokomotiv on September 12, 2003 in the 2003/04 season (Lokomotiv won with a score of 7:2). Before that, Evgeny played two games for the main team of Magnitogorsk at the XII Memorial of I. Kh. Romazan in 2003. He opened his goalscoring account on October 11, 2003 in Moscow in a match against Dynamo (Moscow) – together with Ravil Gusmanov, he assisted Alexander Koreshkov. Malkin scored his first goal in Yaroslavl in a match with the same Lokomotiv on December 12, 2003, and in this match he scored two goals.
In total, Evgeni Malkin played for the Magnitogorsk club for 3 seasons – 2003/04, 2004/05 and 2005/06. During this time, he went from a budding hockey player to one of the leaders of the club and the national team.
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At the 2014 World Championships, Malkin became a double world champion, having scored the third goal in a 5-3 majority in the final match against Finland.
Also as part of the Russian national team, Malkin participated in three Winter Olympics: in 2006 in Turin, in 2010 in Vancouver and in 2014 in Sochi.
In 2020, Malkin was named to the 2010s IIHF All-Star Team.
The hockey player is married to TV presenter Anna Kasterova. On May 31, 2016, the couple had a son, whose name was Nikita. Malkin has two nationalities (Russia and the United States).
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