It took just one day for Boston Bruins netminder Tuukka Rask to take the spotlight from Pittsburgh Penguins forwards Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin.
Pittsburgh’s star forwards became the namesake of a newly born child of a pair of Penguins superfans, who named their child Malkin Crosby Long after the duo.
While Crosby and Malkin have a child named after them, Rask has an entire species of wasps named after him.
Here’s how the story goes: Robert S. Copeland grew up a huge Boston Bruins fan in his hometown of Newton, Mass and is now an entomologist at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology in Nairobi, Kenya.
So when Copeland and his team discovered a new species of wasps in the Teita Hills of Kenya he named it after the Bruins goaltender.
Officially the insect is named Thaumatodryinus tuukkaraski. Neat, huh?