PICTURE OF THE DAY

ROAD TRIP. Russian ice hockey player Evgeni Malkin of the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins displays the Stanley Cup trophy near a WWII monument in his hometown of Magnitogorsk on September 1, 2009.

Tradition has it that every player on the championship team gets the opportunity to bring the trophy home for a few days.

(Photo by Yuri Kuzmin/AFP/Getty Images)