Evgeni Malkin's wife. Evgeni Malkin’s wife: “Ovechkin likes to shock, my husband is more modest
Name: Anna Kasterova
Age: 34 years old
Height: 170
Activity: Russian journalist, TV presenter
Anna Kasterova: biography
Anna Romanovna Kasterova is a TV presenter of the Russia-2 channel, co-host of the Central Television program on the NTV channel, editor of the TNT program Moscow: Instructions for Use. The wife of the center forward of the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Russian national team, world champion, hockey player.
Anna was born in September 1984 in Zelenograd, near Moscow. That, in fact, is all that the girl reports about herself. Although the girl’s army of thousands of fans is ready to do a lot to learn about the beauty’s life. Since the late 2000s, Anna’s popularity rating has been growing, as evidenced by a considerable number of queries in the Runet search engine. The biography of Anna Kasterova, as well as the details of Anna’s private life, are of interest to at least 16 thousand users per month. Which is not surprising - the girl is called the “sex symbol of the Russia 2 TV channel.”
Anna herself sparingly reports that she received a diploma higher education, having graduated from Moscow City pedagogical university. Kasterova’s specialty is Psychology.
TV
Her bright appearance, ability to act casually in the frame and maintain a conversation on any topic helped Anna Kasterova get on television. The girl first appeared on screen at the age of 22. In 2006, Anna was offered to edit and host the program “Moscow: Instructions for Use,” which was broadcast on TNT.
But all-Russian popularity came to Anna Kasterova after her appearance on the Russia 2 channel. The journalist was invited here as the host of the Vesti.ru news program. Friday". Anna covered events in the country and abroad. The TV presenter paid attention to news from the world of science, various technologies and the Internet.
The ability to talk about serious things in an entertaining way makes the Vesti.ru editions. Friday" rating and attractive. Kasterova adds fascination to her reporting by boldly showing shocking footage and highlighting interesting details of her life. famous people. Spicy reports, light style and manner of broadcasting, pleasant communication help viewers get a boost of positive mood for the weekend.
As for the title “sex symbol” assigned to the girl, Anna Kasterova comments this news laughing, noting that it would be better to give the title to the smartest one. After all, a journalist builds a career on television using other qualities than, for example, she did.
Anya says that she does not want to act in candid photo shoots, although in lately Such proposals come with enviable regularity. It would be unpleasant for the girl if Anna was seen naked on the covers of magazines by her grandparents or teenage girls, for whom the presenter wants to be a worthy example.
The ability to maintain a conversation and ask a media person a question that interests many, made Anna Kasterova a regular guest on the Headbutt talk show. The journalist does not make discounts or concessions to athletes and does not pay attention to social status, so the conversation turns out to be extremely frank, and therefore interesting and poignant. The dialogue is reminiscent of “interrogation with passion” - Anya without hesitation asks the football star about everything: about his personal life, bank accounts, real estate, about vacations and relationships with his significant other.
In the fall of 2012, fans of Anna Kasterova saw their favorite on NTV. The girl was chosen as the new face of the 3-hour Central Television program, which she hosted together with Vadim Tekmenev. By the time Anna appeared on the air, the Central Television program had already received high viewer ratings and recognition from the Television Journalists Club for two years. The political component of the television show was shifted towards entertaining reports about the lives of show business, sports and cinema stars.
The very first episode with Anna Kasterova received a public outcry - journalists managed to interview the president. For three months, Kasterova and Tekmenev divided the air of the program: Vadim hosted a part called “CT. The main thing,” Anna covered the information of the two subsequent blocks – “CT. Revelations" and "CT. Evening."
In 2013, the girl concluded new contract with the Russia-2 channel, where she became the face of the program “ Great sport”, and a year later - the TV presenter of the reality show “I am a policeman”.
Personal life
The personal life of Anna Kasterova is a burning topic that interests the girl’s many thousands of fans. In 2011, fans suspected that there was a relationship between the beauty and the presenter of Muz-TV and MTV. romantic relationship. Fans were prompted to do this by photos that appeared in the media and social media. They show the couple in an informal setting, in clubs and cinema. But Anna and Timur did not comment on the presence or absence of a relationship.
Clarity on the issue of interest appeared in 2015. The media started talking about the fact that Anna Kasterova was not only dating the famous hockey player Evgeni Malkin, but even received a marriage proposal from him. Journalists noted that Anya responded to the athlete and eligible bachelor consent.
The couple was first noticed at the Pittsburgh Penguins matches, which took place in Minsk. To meet her lover, the girl specially came from Moscow. After each competition, Anna greeted Evgeniy with hugs and kisses, which was captured by reporters from some media outlets. After the tournament, both young men returned to their place of work - Kasterova to Moscow television, Malkin went to training bases in the USA.
IN free time Anna Kasterova, like many girls, loves shopping and enjoys visiting fashionable metropolitan boutiques in search of beautiful clothes. The girl also loves to drive and drives her own BMW quite well.
Anna Kasterova now
In May 2016, Anna Kasterova confronted the public with a fact - the TV presenter, childbirth should take place in the near future. The girl took the decisive step 9 months earlier. Changes began on television: the sports and entertainment channel “Russia 2” began the process of merging with NTV-Plus. The holding was called Match-TV. A new broadcast network was created, old programs were closed, and the concept of the channel was developed.
And Anna Kasterova decided to move to America. Evgeni Malkin expected such an act from his companion. According to the forward, his girlfriend should belong entirely to the family, and not disappear at work. Being the wife of a world-famous hockey player is a big responsibility for a girl.
After a couple in the USA. The newlyweds postponed their wedding until later. Despite the excitement around the birth of the hockey player's first child, the couple refrained from showing Nikita to the public. Only at the beginning of 2017 online " Instagram“Photos of the baby began to appear on Anna Kasterova’s account. The mother herself quickly got into shape after giving birth and began to look even slimmer than before pregnancy: with a height of 170 cm, the girl’s weight did not exceed 62 kg.
Now the girl is completely immersed in family troubles and her husband’s affairs. In August, the couple attended a match football CSKA and Spartak.
Projects
- 2010-2012 – “Vesti.ru” and “Vesti.ru. Friday"
- 2012 – “PROtourism”
- 2011-2012 – Football show “Header”
- 2012 – “GT Academy”
- 2012 – “Central Television”
- 2013-2015 – “Big Sport”
- 2014-2015 – “I am a policeman”
The loving couple settled in a spacious bungalow with a private pool and direct access to the beach. For such apartments Evgeniy Malkin paid $1.8 thousand per day. A piquant video has appeared on the Internet, in which, through the window of a bungalow, one can clearly see Anna Kasterova, lying on the bed, kisses the star forward on the lips, and he lightly slaps her on the ass. The video ends right there interesting place- when Kasterova is about to take off her light snow-white sweater and lace white panties.
I don't do explicit photo shoots. If my grandparents suddenly see me naked on the cover of some magazine, I know for sure they won’t like it. They spent a lot of time with me, one might say they raised me, I don’t want to upset them. Besides, there are many girls among my fans school age“for whom I want to be an example,” Anna said in an interview recently. - I was invited to appear topless by both Maxim and Pro sport magazines, but I refused them.
Now, thanks to the scandalous filming, millions of Internet users have enjoyed the love games of the chaste TV journalist and her famous macho man.
Malkin is like water off a duck's back. But Anya seemed upset.
The new girlfriend of the Russian national team hockey player will be 30 in September. She was born in Zelenograd, lived in the 4th microdistrict, and all the neighboring boys seemed to be in love with Kasterova. One of them, named Dmitry, assures that Anya “is a great kisser, that there was a lot of things between them, but when Kasterova was invited to television, their fleeting romance was a thing of the past.”
Colleagues from NTV said that several years ago he had his eye on Anna Timur Soloviev, at that time the host of MTV and Muz-TV. The man courted him very gallantly, but soon the girl realized that she would not expect any marriage proposal from him. Both decided that two TV presenters for one family is too much. There will be no one to cook cabbage soup.
Then Anya was not yet ready for marriage, but now she is mature. She doesn’t talk about her feelings for Malkin, but her friends assure her that their relationship has been going on for many months.
They met when the Russia-2 TV channel was preparing a program about Malkin. Another TV star was the first to fall for him - Katerina Kirilcheva, who hosted the talk show “90x60x90”, and now works on the “Bolshoi Sport” program. During filming in the studio, Katya, as if by chance, always found herself next to Evgeniy, casting languid glances at him. But for some reason Malkin fell for Kasterova. When Katerina found out that they were having an affair, her face became whiter than chalk. Now the two TV personalities diligently avoid each other.
By the way, the blonde Kirilcheva did not host the “90x60x90” program alone, but together with the brunette Maria Command. Colleagues considered them friends, but at some point each began to pull the blanket over itself, to find out which of them was better - and the friendship ended. The TV presenters quarreled. As a result, Masha left for another channel, but the “bitch” Katya remained.
Cravings for sweets
At 29 years old, Kasterova is a very “packed” girl. He drives his own BMW and dresses in expensive stores. By the way, the driving instructor told her directly:
- Lord, my dear, you are trying in vain. You shouldn't drive a car - you'll crash!
Anya turned to another instructor. Same verdict. But old friend- calmly, without any shouts or phrases like “Where are you going, you fool?!” - taught me how to steer.
As a child, Kasterova, according to her, adored her grandmother’s pies and buns and looked like a donut. Even now she can sometimes wake up in the middle of the night and start eating. chocolates. And then he falls asleep again.
“I love going to McDonald’s,” the TV presenter admits, “although I know that the food there is unique.” I love fatty foods fried potatoes. So I always have to struggle with excess weight. Working out at the gym helps. I literally kick myself to go to fitness. Sometimes I put on gloves and, as hard as I can, hit the punching bag. This also helps to lose weight.
Let us add that Zhenya Malkin is a loving guy. Before the affair with Kasterova, the world champion was in love with a sexy blonde Oksana Kondakova. She was also a TV presenter. The hockey player met her in his native Magnitogorsk, then invited her to the USA, where he has lived since 2006 and plays for the NHL club Pittsburgh Penguins. Zhenya liked Oksana madly, but his parents categorically did not like her. Kondakova constantly extracted money from the hockey player, at every opportunity she introduced herself as “Malkin’s girl” and loved to hang out in nightclubs. The couple separated about two years ago.
“I now have another young man,” Oksana admitted to us. - I no longer lay claim to Malkin, and I don’t care who he dates. But Zhenya and I maintained friendly relations.
After Kondakova, the Pittsburgh striker had a fleeting romance with a famous long jumper Daria Klishina. But Daria was not ready to quit sports career for the sake of life overseas. But Malkin’s first love, blonde Christina, whom the hockey player met in Ufa and who made him a man, would gladly go to the States. But Evgeny did not invite her with him. True, he left it to the girl rented apartment in Magnitogorsk, paid for a year in advance.
Does Anya Kasterova have a chance of becoming the wife of a famous athlete and womanizer? There are, but, frankly speaking, small ones. Malkin is used to changing girls with approximately the same frequency as his partner on the Russian national team Alexander Ovechkin. Remember, Sasha, even after getting engaged to Maria Kirilenko and announcing the upcoming wedding, he still “got off the hook.” And Malkin about wedding rings didn't even stutter.
Think about it!
There are only two hockey players who managed to become top scorer both the World Championship and the NHL regular season. One of them is Wayne Gretzky, second - Evgeniy Malkin.
By the way
Oksana Kondakova was also older than Malkin. And not for two years, like Kasterova, but for four. Moreover, Oksana started dating a hockey player when she was married woman. And only then did she get divorced.
We found Anna in Miami and, without leaving the beach, asked about life with Malkin and when she would finally return...
You were a popular TV presenter. And now: “Who is Anna Kasterova?” - “And this is Malkin’s wife.” How did you experience this transformation?
The status of the presenter has not gone away, we are not talking about ending a career, just a break in broadcasting. And on current moment Anna Kasterova is a happy mother and wife.
Did your husband easily give the go-ahead for shooting for MAXIM?
You know, editor-in-chief Alexander, with whom we communicate warmly, has long wanted me on the cover. But I for many years refused because I thought it would interfere with my television career. And then a funny thing happened. Alexander offered Zhenya a shoot for a sports section. And he told me about it in the evening. To which I replied: “Well, at least someone in our family will act for MAXIM.” And then he: “Okay, take off, just so that everything is decent.”
Speaking of career. You know, it’s hard for young guys to decide what they will do in the future. And at the age of fourteen, a girl can already see whether she will work or not. Why did you decide to work?
Relying only on appearance is short-sighted. Attraction opens some doors, but when combined with the right ones life principles and with your head you can achieve more, fight for your dreams and feel proud of what you have done for yourself. It's nice! I grew up in a simple family in Zelenograd and achieved everything on my own. I go through life and know that interesting things are always ahead.
Did you have any problems with your studies?
I was an excellent student, but my behavior suffered. At graduation we were locked in the school, but I lured the key to the classroom from the caretaker and escaped through the window. The caretaker then got into trouble, and I apologized to her through the magazine.
I see that with adrenaline you are on first-name terms.
I jumped with a parachute from a serious height - 3500 meters. 55 seconds of free fall. You fly like a stone, then the parachute opens, and you can already live. Although the first broadcast was interrupted by the adrenaline from the jump. It seemed to me that my hands, teeth, and eyelashes were shaking from excitement. There’s a frenzied stream of consciousness in my head: “Can everyone see that I’m worried?”, “I’m stupid, I can’t get my act together,” “What if I make a mistake?”, “What if they don’t have time to prepare the plot for broadcast?”
Did your male interlocutors often react to you as something other than a reporter?
Once, while working at NTV, I flew to the Emirates on vacation. And then they call me from the Central Television program and say that Jean-Claude Van Damme lives in a nearby hotel and I need to do an interview with him. But the interview did not work out. He was so fascinated that he immediately took her to the beach to demonstrate strength techniques. Taught me how to fight in a long dress. It was a funny story.
I know that Zhenya did not take your work seriously.
This is true. But now he understands that I really miss work. Yes, I needed to understand how to move forward in our relationship with him. And then there were only the States. I won’t lie, Zhenya put a lot of pressure on me. It’s difficult to build something serious from a distance, and two years ago I moved to Pittsburgh.
Were you at all interested in hockey before meeting Zhenya? Did you differentiate the stick from the pads?
I was rooting for the Russian national team, and nothing more. But now, of course, our whole life is subordinated to hockey: our own regime, our own prejudices. For example, the NHL has its own dress code: hockey players go to games in suits, ties and shirts. And if you win the game, then in the future you try to wear only this lucky suit to matches, until the first defeat. Let's take food: if before the game Zhenya ate spaghetti and won, then he will eat it until he loses. Or music: my parents and I are going to the match, Beyoncé is playing...
Enough! I understood the scheme: if Zhenya wins, then only Beyoncé will sing in the car until the next loss.
Don't laugh! All hockey players are quite superstitious. Especially since it’s the playoffs: nerves, tension. Many try to provoke their husband, to get him emotional, and some succeed. And I’m worried: after all, he goes out on the ice to show his level of play, and not to kill himself. In general, Zhenya is not a fighter. He rarely tries himself, but he always fights back, and I like that about him. Even if the odds are not very equal, he will take off his helmet and gloves and go talk to a horse under 250 pounds.
Pounds exactly? Are you already thinking in American terms?
We're talking about the NHL. And so among ourselves we still stick to our native Russian kilograms. Whatever one may say, seven hundred days of living in Pittsburgh left an imprint. And now, when I see people with angry gray faces in Moscow stores, I am perplexed. After all, here you have to smile all the time. Although at first it irritated me wildly: the stranger smiles, asks how I am doing, but after a couple of seconds he changes his facial expressions and forgets about me. Yes, Americans absolutely don’t care how you are doing. But a smile is better than a frown.
At one time you were involved in boxing. Do you remember anything else?
Yes, I was given a good straight punch, but I was not seriously interested in boxing. Now I don’t have a day without sports. In Moscow I practiced bodypump - strength training to all muscle groups with extra weight. But I can’t find such training anywhere here. That's why we set up a hall in the house. I have my own small records: I can stand in a plank without rest for four minutes.
Evgeni Malkin is the most titled Russian hockey player in the NHL, owner of super statistics and three Stanley Cups. Right now he is fighting for the fourth cup: main ice battle The NHL begins in May, with the final match taking place in June. If the powerful Pittsburgh takes off - although there is practically no chance of this - we will see Zhenya at the World Hockey Championship, which is also in May.
August 7, 2006, Magnitogorsk. Russian national hockey player Evgeni Malkin wakes up after a night that he would later call the worst of his life. The day before, negotiations with his native Metallurg about a new contract dragged on. There was something to argue about: it was obvious to everyone around that Zhenya was ready to move to the American National Hockey League. Pittsburgh is already waiting for him, but the management of Magnitogorsk insists - one more year, it’s really necessary.
As a result, at the eleventh hour of negotiations, Malkin succumbs to the persuasion of management, signs an annual contract and goes to bed. But in the morning he still realizes that he made a mistake and makes a fateful decision - to call the agent, refuse the contract and go to the States. “You can’t do this to people, you can’t force them to sign contracts at three in the morning,” Zhenya will later say disappointedly in an interview. Despite accusations of unpatriotism and skepticism from “well-wishers” regarding his future overseas career, the long-awaited event for Zhenya and fans of his talent soon took place - in September Malkin made his debut for the Penguins.
Around the same time in Moscow, Anya Kasterova, an excellent student from Zelenograd who had studied to become a psychologist, was on the verge of making a very important decision. The thought was pulsing in her head that she had had enough of management and work alien to her heart - it was time to realize her childhood dream and become a TV presenter. I started sending out my resume to everyone, and the answer came from Rossiya 24. However, without experience and specialized education, Anya was offered only a free internship: to go on filming with the channel’s star correspondents, carry a microphone behind them, carry out small assignments, at the same time watch how they work, and quietly shake her head. She had to remain in this status for two years - and this was after a calm office work in a financial company!
“Yes, before television I managed to try myself in several areas at once. But usually everything I took on worked out. Well, I’m not a stupid woman,” - thin, tall and tanned Kasterova contains not only a funny contralto, but also a healthy dose of self-irony.
Perhaps, thanks to her, Anna eventually got her chance in the frame and took full advantage of it. Then there was TNT, again VGTRK, the show “Headbutt”, “Central Television” on NTV and a bunch of other things. Twelve years later they are in Pittsburgh. Together. He is a three-time Stanley Cup winner. She is the face of Channel Two, now a mother and wife. It seems that the time for difficult career decisions is over, but even if not, you will no longer have to make them alone.
“We met in 2011,” recalls Kasterova. – More precisely, how we met: Zhenya saw me on TV, found my number through some of his friends and wrote. We recently tried to remember what kind of friends they were...
“Well, the FSB is there...” in everyday life, Malkin communicates in short, ironic punchlines, which, combined with his original timbre and expressive accent (if it’s in English), usually end with the laughter of those around him.
- So, FSB, right? – Anna casts a glance at her husband, full of imaginary anger, which is common in everyone’s communication. happy couples, and after a moment both burst into boisterous laughter. Through laughter Kasterova retells the text historical message. It went something like this: “Hello, Anya. This is Zhenya Malkin, I liked you, we can be friends, and I’ll write to you sometimes.” Either the insidious use of the particle “here” worked, or Kasterova was simply in the mood that day, but she agreed, although one can imagine how many similar messages the girl, who at that time had the status of a sex symbol of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, received.
The plot of the conversation took shape almost immediately: Evgeniy did not hide his feelings that arose on the other side of the screen and constantly tried to initiate a full-fledged date. But Anya was in no hurry to let the fiery center forward go beyond the blue line. It didn’t help that Malkin lived and worked in another hemisphere. Therefore, for three long years, Malkin and Kasterova were in a stage of ambivalent, semi-friendly WhatsApp correspondence and rare phone calls. There were occasional "hi-hi" at Fight Nights and in various Moscow restaurants, but nothing more.
“Of course, I understood that there is no friendship between a man and a woman,” recalls Anna, “and that since a person writes, it means there is some kind of interest there, but for some reason I wanted to continue this game longer.” “There was interest,” Malkin admits, “but in the correspondence I got a little ahead of myself, as is typical for men. First of all, I wanted to get to know each other better, and then we’ll see. It was extremely annoying that we couldn’t do it for so long.” Fateful meeting, after which, as Malkin put it, “everything became serious,” took place where hockey players and television journalists converge like quantum particles before the Big Bang - at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, or rather, immediately after. Malkin, in fact, begged for the first date, persuading Kasterova to have lunch with him in order to console him a little after the disappointing defeat from the Finns in the quarterfinals.
“I agreed without any second thought,” states Anya, “and then... we met. It immediately became clear that the brutal hockey player is a romantic and vulnerable person who has a hard time coping with defeats.”
It’s funny that the Kasterova-Malkin “big bang” might not have happened if the current ban on the participation of National Hockey League players in the Olympics had begun to apply back then.
Today, although Malkin is upset that he could not take part in the Russian team’s first victory in decades, he is happy for his colleagues and hopes to go to Winter Games in 2022. “We are pawns in this situation,” he exclaims in his hearts, “and decisions are made by people who manage billions.” The league counted its losses and decided not to let the stars go. What can I do, it's a shame. But first of all, I’m happy for our team.
“Of course, I understand how important this award would be for Zhenya,” says Kasterova. – Yes, and I would love to go and cheer for him, especially since I haven’t been to Korea.
- It’s okay, you’ll go to Severnaya! – a little more family trolling from Malkin.
– Which Northern one, Zhen?! – again Anya’s imaginary stern look and another burst of laughter.
Evgeniy’s unique sense of humor was forged in the difficult conditions of numerous press conferences with questions from the series “How did you understand what needs to be improved in attack?” (really, losing 0:2, as soon as he realized that it was time to step up his attack?) or “How did you feel when you drove the puck into the top corner of the opponent’s goal?” Malkin found perfect recipe struggle with such “meaningful” questions: blurt out the simplest, shortest and most paradoxical thought in your head. Combined with the Russian accent, it's enough to make Americans clutch their tummies with laughter.
Against this background, I want to perceive Malkin as a sort of lout, a shirtless guy, as simple as five kopecks, with a strange, slightly awkward plasticity. But that’s until you see how he makes two turns around his axis away from a pair of opponent’s defenders, simultaneously throwing the puck past the goalkeeper.
This is where it becomes clear that this guy is actually not that simple. The whole family, both paternal and maternal line worked at the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works.
Kasterova’s ancestors, by the way, are also along the industrial-scientific line. It is no coincidence that Anya’s first work was news of science, technology and the Internet on the air of “Russia 2”. Her grandfather was one of the leading engineers at the Zelenograd plant Angstrem. Remember the vintage Soviet gameboxes with the game “Well, wait a minute!”, where the wolf caught eggs in a basket, as well as “Secrets of the Ocean” and “Autoslalom”? Our heroine’s grandfather developed them, and little Anya was the first informal beta tester.
“They even gave me models that didn’t end up in the serial production! - she is proud. Today, family life is clearly divided into days when there is a match in the evening and when there is not. On the day of the game, they wake up early, accompany Zhenya to training, after which Anya begins to prepare lunch for him, observing all the rules of hockey nutrition, fortunately they are not so complicated. Then Malkin returns, eats, sleeps for an hour and leaves to prepare for the game, a little later Anya goes to the arena. And when there is no match, Zhenya returns in the afternoon, and the family spends the rest of the day with their son Nikita.
On weekends they mostly go to lunches and dinners with friends. It's either someone from the big Russian-speaking community Pittsburgh, or the “Penguins”: team captain Sidney Crosby, Malkin’s teammate on the power play Phil Kessel and two Swedish legionnaires Patrik Hernqvist and Carl Hagelin.
"More Kris Letang nice guy, sometimes you can be friends with him,” adds Zhenya.
But overall, Pittsburgh is a small town, with a population of three hundred thousand. It used to be the center of the steel industry, but since it moved to third world countries, it has been looking for itself in high-tech and biohoney. For now he’s just looking, so there’s nowhere to spend his leisure time here. The nearest metropolis, New York, is seven hours by car - too much for Zhenya’s schedule, in which there is a maximum of one and a half days without games or training. Las Vegas?
– I wasn’t there, but Evgeny? – Kasterova looks questioningly at her husband. – And Evgeniy loves Vegas! – Malkin talks about himself in the third person with hussar enthusiasm, but it immediately becomes clear that this is still bravado. He was only in Vegas a couple of times, and then for work: he played with a local team. – It’s probably cool to go there on vacation, listen to concerts, play in the casino. But when the season ends, I usually want to go to the sea, plus this year I need to show my great-grandson to my grandmother. So sometime later. Homesickness in their situation, of course, arises in full height. They fight it as best they can: sometimes they watch domestic channels (his favorite film is “Operation Y”, hers is “Cruel Romance”), more often they go to a Russian store for bagels, at the peak of nostalgia Malkin bought Russian billiards. In Magnitogorsk, he loved to play it and has now seriously raised his level of skill. Sports where you have to score something somewhere are definitely his.
In Pittsburgh, Anya misses her Moscow friends, relatives and friends, as well as the city’s infrastructure. “But I knew what I was getting into,” she says, “and I consciously made a choice in favor of my future husband, family and his career. And this decision was not easy for me, it was not without tears. Then entertainment, you know, is not the main thing in life. But for athletes, for example, Pittsburgh is ideal – there are no distractions.”
And indeed, Malkin is clearly not distracted by anything. For the Penguins, Gino (his American nickname, a derivative of his name, is written Geno) is a leader in the broad hockey sense of the word: he has the most goals scored, points in the “goal + pass” system and the best utility indicator (ratio of missed pucks to goals scored) while he is directly in the game).
A Siberian giant moving across the ice at supersonic speed, an archetypal Russian hero who will come and, saying two words with a characteristic accent, will solve all problems - this is how Malkin is perceived in the States. And Penguins fans also see him as the reincarnation of Mario Lemieux, the legendary No. 66 who led their then second-rate club to two Stanley Cups in the early nineties. In this component, by the way, Malkin has surpassed Lemieux: he already has three cups - in 2009 and in the last two seasons in a row. And this year there are serious chances to take the fourth. But in the regular season, Pittsburgh's performance is more modest. Why?
“After two Cups in a row, most of our opponents play against us with a special attitude,” says Malkin. “On the one hand, they are afraid, on the other, they want to beat at all costs.” For Zhenya personally this means increased attention defenders. And not always within the rules. Hockey provides plenty of scope for aggression: 26 types of violations, for which you are sent off for two minutes, and another 15, for which you are sent off for five. There are simply no matches in which Malkin has not experienced at least one of them. This, of course, is not the story of Pavel Bure, the main Russian star of the NHL previous generation. Bure, nicknamed the Russian Rocket, could not have entered the court at all without his “bodyguards” Odzhik and Brashear - his opponents would have simply smeared him across the ice.
With 191 cm and almost 90 kg Zhenya, such a trick, of course, will not work. He himself is not a fool to push around - he also has enough penalty minutes - and even to fight. But the straightforward and complacent Malkin does not know how to hit on the sly and cannot tolerate dirty playing techniques. When provoked, he does not hesitate to strike first. Magnitogorsk-style!
From a combat point of view this may be good, but from a strategic point of view it is a disaster.
Gino could easily be removed before the end of the match, and Pittsburgh will be left without its main sniper. To decide this problem, before the start of this season, the club acquired the black bully Ryan Reeves, who knocked out six opponents in six months - more than a decent result. This allowed Malkin to reduce the number of his deletions by fifty percent. But in February, the “party line” changed, and Reeves was traded for reinforcement for the third line. Apparently, in the playoffs the Penguins will need glasses more than black eyes under their opponent’s eyes. However, Evgeniy still has his own personal, loud-voiced and blue-eyed Ryan Reeves at home, his name is Anya.
When she once again pulls Zhenya and me back and encourages us to move on with the interview questions, I notice that Anna is not relaxed at all. “This is my usual state,” Kasterova calmly states. But Malkin is relaxed, he jokes, shines with new punchlines, laughs. Thanks to his tireless wife, all his worries begin and end with hockey ice. And this at a time when their son Nikita is one year and eight months old (very soon he will demand food with the final siren and announce the end of the interview) - a difficult period in the life of any young family! It's not surprising that under such conditions, Gino recently broke the 900-point mark in the NHL. It is not unreasonable for the fans to expect him to play to at least one and a half thousand, or even two.
When asked whether they were going to return to Russia after finishing their career, Malkin was already beginning to speak positively in a booming bass voice, but then Kasterova’s contralto burst in to cut him off with a well-spoken wording: “We are still in dialogue on this topic. A lot will depend on the children.”
At this moment it becomes clear: as long as Anya is around, Zhenya will never sign anything unnecessary again, no matter who and no matter how much pressure is put on him. Neither at three o'clock in the morning, nor at five o'clock in the morning. Happy man.
: his wife Anna Kasterova gave birth to the hockey player’s first child. And the other day, the athlete boasted on Instagram of a joint photo in which his wife looks quite slim, although not even three weeks have passed since the birth.
Of course, the main reason for the photo was not only the desire to take a family portrait, but, first of all, to capture the Stanley Cup, which is iconic for all hockey players, won by Malkin’s team the Pittsburgh Penguins the day before. Kasterova cheered for her husband throughout all the final matches and, together with all the team’s fans, rejoiced at the victory.
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While still expecting her first child, the girl told in an interview with StarHit how she kept herself in shape: “Since I’m pregnant, I want to eat a lot, I forgot about diets. But I still try to keep myself in shape, I go in for sports, but Zhenya constantly feeds me. He is a tough leader in our family, and I don’t contradict him, I just resist him a little.”
Let us remind you that Anna managed to hide her pregnancy almost until the last moment: the TV presenter’s situation became known in early May, after her broadcast documentary film Channel One "Evgeniy Malkin. Russian among the Penguins." The child was born in one of the US clinics, where the family of the famous hockey player now lives. The boy was named Nikita. Evgeni Malkin became a father for the first time.
Malkin's wife tried to exercise during pregnancy, but could not limit herself in food. “Since I’m pregnant, I want to eat a lot, and, in principle, I need to eat like this, and I need to eat everything. I forgot about diets, but I still try to keep myself in shape and play sports. But Zhenya constantly feeds me... In fact, he is a tough leader in our family, and I don’t contradict him, I just resist a little,” Anna said during pregnancy.
Young parents devote all their time to raising their first-born Nikita. When Anna was discharged from the clinic with her son, her family and friends prepared a real surprise for mother and baby. Their house was decorated with blue balloons and ribbons, and the names of all three family members were written in English on the columns.
Let us remember that Kasterova and Malkin met about two years ago. Kasterova had to sacrifice her career as a TV presenter in order to always be close to Evgeniy. Last year, the Pittsburgh Penguins forward proposed marriage to his beloved. However, the couple has not yet been able to arrange a magnificent wedding celebration. In early June, it turned out that Evgeniy and Anna had already officially registered their marriage in one of the registry offices in New York. Kasterova herself informed StarHit about this.