2009-2010 Year in Pictures - Player Collages Edition

You have probably seen some of these in the player wrap-ups over the last month, but I missed many of the early posts while on vacation in New Mexico, so quite a few are previously unseen.  The collages look a lot better when they are bigger, so click on the photo to see them in larger size or check out the link below to view them on Picasa.

Let's start with this year's MVP:

***** Iceburgh *****

My favorites:  Little Iceburgh looking at the Igloo through the hotel window;  Christmas and Valentine's Day;  Lap dancing;  Holding the lucky sock.

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***** Sidney Crosby *****

My favorites:  Sid torches Miller; Ruutu face plant; Hat trick on giveaway hat night.

My favorites:  Crosby, Staal and Geno.

My favorites:  Sid moves in on goal during shootout against Toronto; upper-left shot of Sid coming back to the bench after a goal against the Rangers.

***** Marc-Andre Fleury *****

My favorites:  Shootout save on Backstrom.

My favorites:  Shootout save against the Wings;  Iceburgh looking over Flower's shoulder;  Fleury tossing t-shirts into the crowd.

My favorites:  Kick-save on Backstrom;  Happy Birthday Flower.

***** Evgeni Malkin *****

My favorites:  Geno's shootout goal against the Wings;  Big Geno, little Iceburgh.

***** Kris Letang *****

My favorites:  Eye of the Tiger during the anthem;  Starting up ice on the shootout.

My favorites:  Tanger signing my jersey.

My favorites:  Tanger and Talbot.

***** Jordan Staal *****

My favorites:  Happy Staal comes back to the bench after a goal against Dallas.

My favorites:  Blocking a shot against Carolina;  lower-right, Staal mimics Sid's Olympic celebration.

***** Pascal Dupuis *****

My favorites:  Shootout goal against the Leafs;  Dups explains to Poni that he's going to put it "this far" inside the post.

***** Brooks Orpik *****

My favorites:  Orpik goes down on one knee to block a shot against the Islanders;  Pensive Brooks.

***** Sergei Gonchar *****

My favorites:  Gonch loads up to shoot (lower-right);  Sarge gets a playoff star of the game.

***** Craig Adams *****

My favorites:  He's so mean he scares gatorade;  Ready to dish out some hurt against Dallas.

***** Maxime Talbot *****

My favorites:  Laughing Max;  Max on a mission (lower-left).

***** Jay McKee *****

My favorites:  Posing with a certain lucky sock.

***** Ruslan Fedotenko *****

My favorites:  Happy Feds;  Ruslan Rocks.

***** Alexei Ponikarovsky *****

My favorites:  Poni at the Doubletree;   Menacing the goalie.

***** Mark Eaton *****

My favorites:  Giving the ref the evil eye;  Eats holding off Semin.

***** Jordan Leopold *****

My favorites:  Tambellini leaping Leo;  Taking the pass from Tanger.

***** Matt Cooke *****

My favorites:  Kneeling to the hockey gods;  crashing the net for a goal against Nashville;  the third line.

***** Bill Guerin *****

My favorites:  Pounding on Slater;  subduing Chelios.

***** Eric Godard *****

My favorites:  I could take him.

***** Michael Rupp *****

My favorites:  Max giving Rupp a face full of poppers;  Rupp ready to rock (upper-right);  71-17.

***** Chris Kunitz *****

My favorites:  Hair sticking through the helmet;  Kunitz debates Crosby as Feds looks on.

***** Tyler Kennedy *****

My favorites:  Looking down on TK.

***** Alex Goligoski *****

My favorites:  GoGo loads up from the point against Nashville.

***** Brent Johnson *****

My favorites:  Making saves on the Caps and Isles.

***** Dan Bylsma *****

My favorites:  I like the "Reservoir Coaches" pic in the bottom middle.

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