Hockey goalies wear some pretty intimidating masks. There’s the skull-eating demon, the angry shark, and the scariest of them all, the Palin for President. But none of those can bat around a ball of yarn like this cuddly mark worn by Vasiliy Koshechkin of Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League.

Its name is Cерьiй, and it is “very bored from being on the side of his head all the time.”
Cерьiй is no name for a kitten, Let’s just call it mittens.
h/t: Deadspin

Our blog can not properly display the Russian text of the cat’s name. For all our readers in Mother Russia, our apologies.
This is what happens when our IT teams sits around all day watching Red Dawn while writing code.
Just wait. Next thing you know they’ll jump out from beneath desks screaming “WOLVERINES!” in your face.