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May. 11 2010 - 9:13 pm | 517 views | 0 recommendations | 4 comments

Sami Salo’s balls of steel hit the ice

By LORRAINE MURPHY
Sami Salo is not having the best day

Sami Salo had a really bad day yesterday

I’m sure they’ve been hitting the ice packs for the last day or so, but Sami Salo and his famous injured testicle have just hit the ice and joined the pre-game skate at the Canucks game. Result: wild, amazed cheering and instant Twitter crash, from all the people going, OH MY GOD IS THAT SAMI SALO???

Congratulations, Salo. Here’s hoping that tonight you’ve got an athletic cup protecting your manbits and here’s to winning a larger one! For taking to the ice less than 48 hours after taking a slapshot to the testicles, you deserve a damn big silver cup for those damn big brass balls of yours.

The Toronto Sun throws in its two bits:

“Testicles and composure are the two words of this series,” quipped Vancouver defenceman Shane O’Brien.

“I’d rather get it in between the eyes than where Sami baby got it.”

Stanley Cup

The Stanley Cup is just about big enough.

UPDATE: it’s official. He’s playing tonight.

And the crowd goes wild:

Break between periods “a resticle” and a vaguely porny tweet from the testicle itself:

Uh-oh. Looks like some of the Canucks body parts won’t be speaking after tonight.

I’m liveblogging a hockey testicle. For this I went to university.

Sadly, even Salo’s stainless steel balls couldn’t save the Canucks from going down. So to speak.

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    10:28 pm on 05/11/10
    Lorraine Murphy Lorraine Murphy The Celebrity Industrial Complex

    The combination of this and Glee is really giving FailWhale a workout tonight.

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