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While teammates Andre Burakovsky and Stan Galiev watched what the NFL billed as a “professional football” game in Maryland on Monday night, Evgeny Kuznetsov pal’d around D.C. with one of his idols, Detroit Red Wings center Pavel Datsyuk.

Kuzy posted a photo of himself with Datsyuk and an unidentified other serious-looking man Monday night, using the graduation cap emoji, presumably because he’s hoping to learn a thing or two from the Russian “Magic man.”

Meanwhile, Michael Latta took a break from begging Brooks Laich to follow him on Instagram to post a comment asking Kuznetsov, “Why don’t you ever Instagram pictures of us?”

Maybe when you start pulling off moves like this:

Kuznetsov later revealed why.

That’s savage.