If you're a Russian hockey player, Vladimir Putin is right up there with Canada on the list of entities you allow to put the puck in the net at will.

The Russian president gets the red-carpet treatment whenever he pads up to play with his country's former NHLers—because you never want to block a Putin slap shot. You have a family.

In any case, Putin played in his second exhibition game of the year Wednesday to commemorate his 63rd birthday. He notched seven goals—just one shy of his eight-score performance in May.

As you'll note, the other team quickly drifts out of frame when Putin gets the puck. To his credit, he passes more than Alexander Ovechkin.

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Great game, Vladimir! Your double hat trick plus one is a testament to both your physical prowess and the potency of orally consumed Siberian musk deer pheromones.

As they say, you're only as old as you would let others believe.





Dan is on Twitter. Musk deer pheromones: You're gonna like the way you smell. I guarantee it.

