Love was all around — and on the ice! — for Ryan Reynolds Tuesday night. Reynolds joined New York Officers legend Henrik Lundqvist and individual Swede Alexander Skarsgård at Madison Square Nursery in New York City to watch the Officers take on the Minnesota Wild, whom they beat 4-3 following a three-on-three extra time and a shootout.
The Deadpool entertainer’s energy to be sitting with Lundqvist was substantial. The previous goaltender, 40, is a symbol at the Nursery — one of only 11 players to have their shirt number resigned, following a noteworthy 15-season run with the group — and he holds the record for most wins by an European-born goaltender in the NHL.
So when Reynolds, 46, saw his opportunity, he took it. He got Lundqvist by the jawline as the jumbotron bounced to their ritzy column of seats and established a big one on him as Skarsgård, 46, humorously claimed to nap on Lundqvist’s contrary shoulder. The kiss immediately made adjusts via virtual entertainment, however it wasn’t the first for Lundqvist that night. As a matter of fact, Reynolds took the move from Skarsgård, who established a kiss on the previous player’s cheek prior in the evening — a move that was likewise gotten on the jumbotron, to fans’ joy.
For Lundqvist, getting back to the Nursery was possibly a nostalgic second. The Swedish-born player, who was granted the Brilliant Puck and Brilliant Cap for his profession in Sweden prior to coming to the Officers, resigned from the game in 2021 following a conclusion of a heart condition that he shared made “the gamble of playing prior to curing my condition excessively high.”
He went through open-heart medical procedure a month subsequent to reporting the conclusion and, after seven months, declared his retirement from the association.
“I arrived at the resolution that there are an excessive number of questions and a lot of chance for insufficient compensation for me to continue to play,” he told the New York Post at that point.
Ryan Reynolds joined in and kissed Henrik Lundqvist too 😂😘
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“I’ve forever found a sense of contentment with it,” he told Individuals in January 2022 of his shirt retirement.
It was a tear-filled event, both for Lundqvist himself and his 100 friends and family in the group — 60 of whom had flown in from Sweden for the occasion.
“At the point when I glance back at my 15 years here, what gives me the most fulfillment isn’t the successes or the individual acknowledgment,” he said during his discourse.
“Yet, it’s actually the responsibility, the responsibility I felt to the New York Officers.”
Getting back to Madison Square Nursery Tuesday — and being the object of both Reynolds’ and Skarsgård’s warmth — took him back to the spot he called home for such countless years.
“I think all through my whole vocation, that spot caused me to feel such countless things, yet in particular, it, I felt alive being at MSG,” he told Individuals.
“Feeling the tension thus much adrenaline and furthermore a glad inclination to be in there and address the Officers.”
