Malkin-Ovechkin: Truce

 Alex: Getting ready to have some sushi - interviews are all done for today. Check out pictures of me and Malkin online - we took a lot, I'm su
re Slava Malamud already posted them on Capitals Insider... :-) You're right, Alex, he did...

Truce for now... :-)


Alex Ovechkin and Evgeni Malkin actually exchanged words this afternoon before the Eastern All-Stars media availability as they sat down with the rest of their compatriots/temporary teammates.

No, there was no kissing and making up, just a few polite words but, according to Malkin, it was a big step toward letting bygones be bygones. So, your special Russian correspondent approached Ovechkin, who was doing his interviews a few paces away, and passed him the olive branch, so to say.

"Are you ready to normalize the relations?", I asked Alex. "Okay", he answered. "Where is he? Let's go and normalize right now!"

And such, the historic moment occured. The visual evidence is before your eyes. Check out the steely strength of that grip.

Puck Daddy's reaction

Slava Malamud from Sport-Express, same stuff in Russian, or this is what actually Malkin and Oveckin said in their native language (for those who are interested)

Малкин: Ну че, мы встретились сегодня, посидели со всеми нашими, че-то там поговорили. Думаю, что все идет к тому, что помиримся (цитирую по памяти, дословной пойдет в газету).

Корр. СЭ - Овечкину: Малкин, похоже, готов к нормализации отношений.

Овечкин: Да? А где он? Давай нормализовывать!

I want to express my personal THANK YOU to Slava.


Just in...

On a personal request from US President Barack Obama Slava Malamud will skip the ASG and fly from Montreal to MidEast to negotiate peace between Israel and Palestine...

Nah... :-)

Update:
FanHouse:

Earlier today, a similar picture snapped by Slava Malamud from Russia's Sport-Express appeared over at Capitals Insider, but Chesnokov and Lysenkov assure me that their picture was snapped first.

If Slava reported it word to word what Ovechkin said, it sounds like Slava was first...


Update:
Please read Slava's comment. Ok, I want to thank Pavel Lysenkov and Slava Malamud and Dmitri Chesnokov for negotiating the truce, THANK YOU!

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