Sean Tomlinson

Nikolai Khabibulin has taught us a valuable lesson: when you own a Ferrari, driving with a blood-alcohol content that’s over twice the legal limit is a poor decision.

Actually, the Oilers goalie demonstrated that valuable life lesson in February of 2010 in Arizona. On Wednesday he finally dropped his appeal and agreed to serve a 30-day jail sentence. Half of that sentence will be served in Arizona, and Khabibulin will have an ankle bracelet on while under house arrest for the other half.

In addition to the jail time, Khabibulin will also pay a fine of $4,016.60 and participate in an alcohol treatment program.

The good news(?) for Oilers fans is that the 38-year-old is excited to prepare for training camp and provide another season of mediocre goaltending.

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Yashin still won’t go away

In fact, now he’s moved in. Although his agent Mark Gandler said contract discussions haven’t advanced since the Islanders’ interest in Yashin first became public on Friday, he did tell the New York Post that those discussions are ongoing, and the line of communication with Garth Snow remains very, very open.

Yashin has even started to get comfortable in his old surroundings after crossing the pond to start training at the Islanders’ facilities.

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At this point we’re convinced that you could hand Alex Ovechkin any item of clothing, and he’d happily try it on. We fear that this theory will be tested and stretched to its logical extreme, and we’re getting pretty close to that inevitable outcome.

The Russian Hockey Machine Never Breaks explains the lovely black ensemble we see above that Ovi wore in his native land over the weekend:

Alex the Great made a surprise appearance during halftime of a soccer match between the Russian Premier League club Anzhi and the defending Russian champions Zenit Saint Petersburg. The local team, Anzhi, honored their guest by presenting him with a traditional Dagestani burka (cape) and papakha (wool hat), as well as the Anzhi supporters scarf. All of these items fit extremely well with one ever-present feature of Alex summer wardrobe — his flip-flops, as reported live by the official Zenit Twitter. Ovi was received with a deafening roar from the stands, with the soccer-themed chants temporarily replaced by the famous Russian hockey call of “Shaibu-Shaibu!”

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