If Ryan Kesler's name sounds familiar to you, then you're either a fan of hockey (perhaps specifically, of the Vancouver Canucks), or you watched the USA hockey team make their way to a silver medal in the 2010 Winter Olympics last month. (Or both!) Well, if you plan on picking up 2K Sports' NHL 2K11 when it launches exclusively for the Wii this fall, then you'll become very familiar with Kesler's face as well as his name -- he's the cover athlete for the game.
Kesler is the alternate captain for the Canucks, and last year, the team's fans voted him as the Canucks' MVP. He's a great two-way (i.e., defensive as well as offensive) forward; he was one of the finalists for the Selke Trophy in 2009. You can see a photo of him in the gallery that was taken during a motion capture session at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas.
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11:00 PM on 03.09.2010
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Hells yeah.
I approve of this.
Then again, I'm an Oilers fan...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Mu8em_fkg
Tooooo funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Mu8em_fkg
Tooooo funny.
Fixed.
Bollocks! I'm a PG boy and I've bled Red Wings since I was really young.
Why put a selke hopeful on the cover when you could put the guy who basically owns it nowadays on the cover.
I'm talking about Pavel Datsyuk.
Kesler is hardly a cherry picker, he doesn't run from fights and his name is not spelt kessler. Miller really shouldn't be on the cover, if anything its brings more focus to the western hockey market which is largely neglected in the hockey world.
Whatever team you happen to be a fan of, you should really take off your homer glasses and realize that Kesler is just a good heart and soul player. Which is more than I can say for most of the American Olympians like Kessel and friends.
Bollocks! I'm a PG boy and I've bled Red Wings since I was really young.
Why put a selke hopeful on the cover when you could put the guy who basically owns it nowadays on the cover.
I'm talking about Pavel Datsyuk.