The Best of Evgeni Malkin’s English Tweets (Part 1).

evgeni malkin | off day | 16th september 2018

did i take increasingly closer renders of the geno sculpt's face just to show off the specular eye i pieced together? yeah. bonus what it looks like without all the shader work:

lmao

rip to the caps but if my terrible team had just barely made the playoffs we would have gotten swept in a much cooler, sexier way

Happy The-caps-got-swept-in-the-first-round-day to those who celebrate

THE COLORADO AVALANCHE, FUCKERSSSS

“i want to say thank you to my girlfriend. she’s too young to remember when i played in pittsburgh”… at least we have this. the boys giggling on the bench at jagr’s joke about his 22-years-younger girlfriend

THE DALLAS STARS!!!! Please, we need you to defeat the devil three more times!!!!🙏🏽

That Nylander video😧🫣

the thing about players like Matt Rempe is that there are so many people who would rather argue that there's a place for him and other guys like him in the league instead of agree that it will always be better and more interesting when gifted players are able to play. and they can argue that other guys are just as bad--but so what if they are? let's be worried about preventing all of it instead of making excuses for why your guy should also be able to take guys out.

I will always be more interested in guys like Quinn Hughes or Cale Makar or Jake Guentzel or Cole Caufield being able to play without having to worry some dude with a propensity for head hits is going to take them out.

Personally, I'd like Sid to have the 108 games he missed between 2011-2012. I'd like him to have the playoff series instead of the concussion he got from a Jacob Trouba hit to the head. I'd like Paul Kariya to have finished his career on his terms and without huge gaps where games should be. I'd like Paul Kariya to have gone to the Olympics in Japan instead of taking a cross-check to the face from Gary Suter. I'd like Hörny to have made that magical playoff run with the Cats instead of having to retire because of a bad Daniel Sprong hit. guys get accidentally taken out by friendly fire all the time. they shouldn't also have to worry about a hit ending their career.

it's not even about "clean" vs. "dirty." if you've played 96 minutes, your injury count should not be that high. who cares if it's legal if it's giving dudes TBIs? genuinely. because that's what concussions are.

some day, every single one of these guys will retire. long or short careers. by choice or by force. with bodies at various levels of health. the fans and the league should care a lot more about those guys than they do.

the only thing Mark Lazerus got wrong in that article was that Jacob Trouba and Tom Wilson had learned their lesson about dangerous hits. I'll believe that when it hasn't happened in the last four months.

here's one study on the quality of life of 76 Swedish hockey players who retired due to concussion. that's the shit we should be caring about.

Look away leafs fans.

If the leafs lose this series they are probably gonna trade someone from their core. And I have a theory that Kyle might be interested in one Mr. Mitch Marner

qmjhl-era curls | for @rimouskis:)