In the many years I have covered Yvgeny Malkin, when we have discussed the strength or the power in his game, it's always, always, always been about the legs.

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place that you found this. Mid-July doesn't usually make for the best time to talk about Gino.

He's not only out of sight, out of mind, he's, generally speaking, on some other hemisphere. And within that,

he's doing his usual fun stuff with his buddies. And you don't catch any sight of Gino doing

anything that looks anything like athletics until, what, about a week or two before training camp talking about social media of

course so yesterday on the completely indispensable you've got any malkin instagram account

he puts a picture of himself at a gym and you can actually see all the gym equipment and the gym people.

Like, this is a public gym somewhere in the background, and he's boasting, and he's wearing this blue t-shirt and shorts, and he raises the t-shirt to show off the abs.

Now, first off, there are, generally speaking, not abs on this

individual to be seen. But I'll offer all the obligatory disclaimers here that he could have just,

you know, sucked it in and held the breath, but I don't think so. I don't think so because he'd be

putting himself into a position where, let's be honest here, everybody associated with the Pittsburgh

Penguins, not least of whom would be the strength and conditioning staff would go, oh boy,

he's doing that trick again where he just sucks it in. No, he knows something's going on.

Big, boastful,

playful smile about him. And I think this is significant. I think this is something that could lead

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