Vladimir Putin Pays Hockey With Ex-NHL Stars – And Scores Eight Goals

[Purveyor]

Associated Press in Moscow
Saturday 16 May 2015 15.00 EDT



Russian president Vladimir Putin played in an exhibition hockey game with retired NHL players on Saturday – and scored eight goals.

Putin’s team won 18-6, with most of the 62-year-old president’s goals coming on assists from NHL stars Pavel Bure and Valeri Kamensky. Three of the remaining goals were scored by Russia’s defense minister.

Bure, 44, played for the Vancouver Canucks, Florida Panthers and New York Rangers, and was affectionately known by US fans as “the Russian Rocket”.

Kamensky, 49, turned out for the Quebec Nordiques, Colorado Avalanche, the Rangers, the Dallas Stars and the New Jersey Devils, and was the scorer of one of the most famous goals in NHL history.

The game was played in Sochi, the city that hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics, and concluded shortly before Russia played the US in a semifinal of the ice hockey world championships.

More...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/16/vladimir-putin-hockey-goals-nhl

[sharp_stick]

1. They had pictures

of old gulags on the jumbotron every time the other team had the puck. Mysteriously they managed to lose it as soon as they crossed the offensive blueline.

That Vlad...wadda man.

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. ...

[NuclearDem]

19. I score eight goals myself. Piss on imperialist decadent Western NHL it is shit.

[Purveyor]

29. At least they suckered you into looking!

Who's laughing now?

[roamer65]

2. Sad thing is Putin probably believes he was that good. N/t

[Drale]

3. Vlad and Kim are true super-men

We better not get into a war with them, they'll beat us single-handedly

[polly7]

4. LOL! Rec!, just to piss some off. nt. Oh ........ and kick!

[bigwillq]

8. I will K and R too

Get this to the greatest page!!!!111111


PutinLovers Unite!!!!1111111111

ApoloPutingists!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111111111111

[polly7]

12. Great, comrade!

Our PootiePatootie's like the Gretzky of Russia!




And just in case anyone's interested, I still haven't had Saddam's baby.

[Purveyor]

31. {{{chuckle}}} Polly I love you!!! eom

[polly7]

34. He he ..... I love you too!

But I have to be a bit circumspect here ....... cause Pootie has got eyes everywhere! In fact, if I wasn't still preggers I'd be tempted to be over there playing on the ice with him right now! - know what I mean?

[underpants]

6. He's the Kim Jung-il (golf) of hockey

Il had somewhere between 5 or 11 holes-in-one the first time he played a round of golf.

[LeftyMom]

10. The dumpy son whose name I forget climbs mountains in his street clothes, without breaking a sweat,

and forgets to stand with the parking lot out of frame.

[Autumn]

14. That was when he was

18 months old wasn't it?

[elehhhhna]

23. no. mount Everest, he was 9. duh.

[Autumn]

24. Amazing. He climbed Mount Everest when he was 9?

Months or years?

[elehhhhna]

40. no, he BUILT it when he was 9

[Autumn]

43. That explains a lot.

[Autumn]

7. ...

Rec

[DemocratSinceBirth]

44. North Koreans are taught Kim never goes to the bathroom./NT

[randome]

9. What a manly man. I swoon, I swoon.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]No squirrels were harmed in the making of this post. Yet.[/center][/font][hr]

[sarisataka]

11. That's nothing

Kim Jong Il would have scored 10-
While getting the shutout as the goalie...

[Cha]

13. Putin is a homophobic, internet/journalist suppressing asshole.. but I see can why those who rec

this would find him wonderful and get a ROFLY about it.

[SidDithers]

15. Yup...

the boot-lickers love them some Putin.

Sid

[polly7]

16. You try sooooooo hard.

[Cha]

27. He's their guy.. it doesn't matter what Putin does.. but, "Germany finally seeing Vladimir Putin

for who he really is".. Who really gives a shite if putin's resident du fans thinks he's such a "hero".

snip//

Russia’s unilateral redrawing of Ukraine’s borders has refocused minds in Germany. Putin’s annexation of Crimea, his lies that Russian troops were not involved, and his covert war in eastern Ukraine have eroded trust in the Kremlin. Germany’s political elite — unlike the isolationist, latently anti-American population at large —has no illusions that Putin’s actions are posing the greatest danger to European security since the Cold War.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who hails from the traditionally Russophile Social Democrats, is the starkest example of this evolution. Steinmeier, together with his French and Polish counterparts, tried to negotiate a settlement between Viktor Yanukovych, then Ukraine’s president, and anti-government protesters in February 2014. Later, Steinmeier spearheaded Merkel’s efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the spiraling conflict through the revival of the so-called Minsk agreement. In the process, he suffered the same Kremlin lies that Secretary of State John Kerry complained about last month.

More..
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/03/09/germany-finally-seeing-vladimir-putin-for-who-he-really-is/

[geek tragedy]

39. When people claim there is no Putin fan club

at DU the list of Recommenders here says otherwise.

[Cha]

45. It figures they would deny their existence.. like no one can see what do.

[NuclearDem]

17. First golf swing he ever took was a hole-in-one.

Oh wait, that was some other despotic asshole.

[sharp_stick]

22. If you've seen one despotic fuckwit

you've seen em' all. Not a paperswidth between them.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

18. Uh, huh....

Who was the goalie, Evgeni Ryabchikov? (Probably the worst pro goalie I ever saw play live, 1st round pick)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeni_Ryabchikov

[Scootaloo]

20. Yes, but will he dare box Mitt Romney?

[NuclearDem]

21. Putin vs Mayweather vs Pacquaio

Unfortunately Mayweather and Pacquaio come down with sad case of shot in back of head. Ukraine bullet, CIA help. Putin default winner. No investigation.

[meow2u3]

25. The ex-NHL stars let Putin's guys win

So that the next time they visited Russia, they wouldn't be thrown in a gulag for beating Czar Vlad.

[Liberal_in_LA]

38. yup

[Aerows]

26. Well I suppose

he is so bold and competent in everything that he endeavors that he won that fairly.

[PersonNumber503602]

35. Ahh, the special mind that came up with that gif...

Oh, internets, how I love you.

[okaawhatever]

32. He says he would have scored 10 goals if they would have let him take his shirt off. nt

[stevenleser]

33. This and Putin remind me of the boss from Mr. Mom

And yes, I'm sure Putin thinks he really has the skill to score those goals, just like th boss in this clip seems to think he really won.

[kairos12]

36. In Russia he could beat the wall in tennis.

[Liberal_in_LA]

37. lol

[MoonRiver]

41. Oh Valdimir, you are such a charmer.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

42. Mitt Romney knocked down a former three time heavyweight champion:

Let's see Pooty Poo do that