The Lucic Painting, A Colloquium

This morning, the Bostonist sports desk received a press release concerning the painting of Milan Lucic reproduced above, and we immediately knew that we had to post about it. The painting, by Russian artist Veronika Loginova, will be auctioned at the November 27 and November 28 Bruins home games, and the proceeds from its sale will benefit the Sports Museum. Here's what our crack team of sports art critics had to say about the work:

Bostonist 1: Somebody has to have something funny to say about this, right?

Bostonist 2: I'm just glad she didn't paint him in his alleged Spandex-heavy-Euro-bike-wear.

Bostonist 1: You're thinking of Zdeno Chara, who also likes to get naked for magazine spreads. I am very glad that it is not a naked painting of Zdeno Chara.

Bostonist 2: You're right. It's too early.

Bostonist 3: I want to know when she started work on this. If it was any time around when he broke his finger, she's banned from all future Bruins portraits.

Unless it's Wideman. We could deal quite nicely with having him off the ice for a bit.