NHL Wives and Girlfriends (WAGS)
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- Well, this is new:
“Apparently it’s one of those mysterious things, where you can throw it out (from) sneezing. I just leaned over to dip into some delicious pancakes that my wife made. It’s just like it (the pain) wraps around you and squeezes. . . . So it was disappointing. Hopefully it’s just an isolated incident, and not something that’s going to become chronic.”
That's Kings winger and the former pride of the University of Maine, Dustin Penner, speaking about his recent back injury which caused him to miss a game. Naturally, it came time to look up who the excellent cook was who caused this condition.
Meet Jessica Welch. Jessica Welch looks like the type of woman you'd expect an NHL star to be married to (and Jessica and Dustin were married in Montreal on January 30, 2011 during the 2011 All Star break). Jessica is shockingly enough a 32 year old model and part time actress (though to be honest, the credits on her resume revealed a series of B level movies and frankly stuff I've never heard of. She has no credits to her name since 2006.)
Aside from her work in the movie Bonanno: A Godfather's Story, one interesting bullet pops out on her resume. In 2009, Jessica Welch divorced husband and former NHL Right Winger, Richard Zednik. The couple has one daughter together, born in 2004.
As part of the divorce settlement, Jessica was awarded $1,000,000. As for why her IMDB page is empty since 2007, her lawyer Doreen Yaffa was happy to explain that one leaving the court after the divorce was finalized:
“She gave up her film career to be his wife. But it was a rocky marriage right from the start.”
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- The man with the hardest slap shot is dating one of the Diva's of the WWE. While we haven't been able to come up with how the couple met, the world found out during the SummerSlam PPV event. After her match Kelly Kelly went up to Sheldon who was sitting in the front row and gave him a kiss on the live broadcast. Having watched wrestling my entire life I can only imagine this did not go over well with Vince McMahon who would not want the world to know who any of the Divas are with. Kelly Kelly has been wrestling with the WWE for a few years, yet has managed four trips to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan with the WWE partnering with the USO. Say what you want about WWE, but you have to respect their repeated demonstrations of commitment to USO trips.
Sheldon is no stranger to hot athletic woman as he was married to Baywatch star Angelica Bridges before the couple separated in the mid 00's.
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- I like Alex Ovechkin.
A lot of athlete's shroud their dating life in secrecy leaving room for gossip and speculation (which we'd be lying if we said we never took part in). Rather than let dopes like us speculate on who he's dating, he just comes out and tells us:
@ovi8: “Me and my girlfriend Maria….she is my queen!!!!”
The Maria in question is actually Maria Kirilenko, 24 year old professional women's tennis player. The Russian tennis star is currently ranked #27 in the world (and peaked at 18 in July, 2008). She has 10 WTA event championships. Maria made the finals of the 2011 Australian doubles finals, though has never made a single finals appearance in a Grand Slam event, nor won a doubles title.
Maria has had some modeling work in the past, including posing for Adidas wearing a Stella McCartney inspired line of clothing. She posed in the 2009 SI Swimsuit Edition with two fellow WTA tennis pros, Tatiana Golovin and Daniela Hantuchova.
Seriously.... Nice work, Ovie.
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- Another Red Wing player and another Swedish bombsell. I tell you with each passing day I’m more becoming a fan of the Detriot Red Wings. There isn’t a lot of information about Tomas Holmstrom's wife Annelie Holmstrom. Of course this appears to be your typical Swedish girl minus the blonde hair. Looks like she meet Tomas while living in Sweden and moved to Motor City when Tomas came to play for the Wings.
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- Over the last 20 years no NHL team has been able to identify young talent and develop it better than the Detroit Red Wings. Apparently Pavel was able to do the same thing when it came to his wife. Svetlana and Pavel meet when he was 18 back in Sverdloush, Russia. The great thing is Pavel didn’t even need to use the “I’m a hockey player line” on Svetlana, claiming he was to embarassed to tell her what he did. Kid had enough game to pull this one in without dropping the money line in Russia. 3 years later after meeting the couple married right as Pavel’s career started with Detroit.
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- Time Together: Just your typical couple from Sweden right here. Nicklas and Annika meet while in high school in a city called Avesta. The couple married early in Nicklas’ career and have 4 sons who of course are all blonde (Kevin, Adam, Samuel and Lucas). The couple split their time between Detroit and Sweden. While in Detroit unless non-Swedish speaking people are present the parents insist the kids speak in Swedish.
- Fun Facts: Since we are near the holidays the Lidstrom family has an interesting Christmas tradition. Unlike most families the Lidstrom’s celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve, with Santa coming early to deliver the presents.
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- If anyone can find a picture of Ian White’s wife Tess please send the picture in ASAP... Why you ask? Because I want to see what the woman of my dreams looks like.
Let me set the scene:
2011 Stanley Cup playoffs, Sharks vs. Red Wings in Game 7 of the Western Conference Semifinals. At some point during the game a very pregnant Tess realizes she is going into labor. Now most women would start being all selfish and demand their husband leave the game to take them to the hospital.
But not Tess.
She simply sends a text message to the Sharks media department and lets them know that she needs to go to the hospital……WHEN THE GAME IS OVER. Oh yes, Tess was not about to upstage her husband on one of his biggest nights. She would tough it out and wait until after the win to go to the hospital and deliver the couple’s second child, Gracelyn Sophia. Their first child, Paxton, was born in 2009.
