The bad news: the Pittsburgh Penguins are in D.C. today to shake hands and photo-op with POTUS at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. as reigning you-know-what champions.
The good news: Our pal Dmitry Chesnokov has been invited to the People’s House as credentialed media to cover the moment. D will be covering the event for both his Russian sports paper Sovetsky Sport and Puck Daddy. (We can perhaps chalk up Greg’s not getting invited to the decision by POTUS to attend a Wizards’ game last season at Verizon Center but not a Capitals’ one.)
It’s a remarkable moment of course, but it’s one made more poignant, Dmitry told me last night, by virtue of the fact that just last year he raised his right hand in a Baltimore courthouse and pledged his allegiance to the United States in becoming a naturalized citizen.
“I just think it is a huge honor to visit the White House and possibly — possibly — have a word with the President of my country,” my favorite new media reporter told me.
Now we just have to see to it that he gets to return to 1600 Pennsylvania next fall, to cover the good-guy local Russian hockey players in an honoring ceremony.
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