2025 Skate Canada Mens FS PBP - The Oh-Men

[skatingguy]

Ilia Malinin
Rank after SP: 1
Coach: T. Malinina, R. Skorniakov, R. Arutiunian
Music: The Ball, The Smell of the Sea

4F
3A
4Lz
4Lo
Change Foot Camel Spin 4
Step Sequence 3
4Lz+1Eu+3F
4T+3T
4S+3A+SEQ
Choreo Sequence
Flying Sit Spin 3
Change Foot Combo Spin 4

The cliche of it all keeps me from taking this serious. The puffy look of the sleeves, and cut-outs in the costume make me think meringue, or salsa. His ability to fly is remarkable - back tuck in the short program, and almost a back layout in the free skate, in addition to his transitional jumps like the raspberry. Nice to see him building his technical content slowly this season - 5 quads last week - 6 this week - taking it easy early in the season.

228.97 = 1st Place
333.81 =1st Place

 

[jlai]

Why is Ilia giving away his Olympic skate here?

 

[Aaron MB Fan]

Absolute masterclass again from Malinin. I feel privileged every time I get to see him skate live, and there have been so many chances as he seems to love skating in Canada in addition to the US!

 

[Skate Talker]

There was no time change in Saskatoon - they stick to Standard Time all year and I'm very envious of this.

Me too. I'm not a fan of the time changes at all.

I live in dread of the day they do away with the time change unless they stick to daylight savings time. If they go with standard time the sun will be fully up by 4 am here in the summer - that's wasted daylight and how rude.

 

[Citlali]

Ilia

I love it all, even the artistiK voice over program

 

[Sally1214]

"Malinin the Magician".... just NO, Ted. A hard, cold NO. "The Quad God" is annoying enough.

 

[peibeck]

Erm... wow. Even by Ilia standards that was incredible.

His run out on his jumps was even better today. Crazy how he continues to improve.

 

[SkateFanBerlin]

Every time I see Ilia`s FS costume I can`t believe it. This week I noticed the sheer front. If you didn`t think it`s on him you`d say it was ladies lingerie.

 

[genevieve]

finally a Malinin program worth watching to the end!
I agree with whoever said that he just keeps tossing new stuff in there because he's bored competing against mere mortals. It really is incredible how easy these jumps are for him.

- aha, I suspected the voiceover was Ilia himself.

 

[Messalina]

"You are something .. but not nothing"

OK ....

 

[slicekw]

How? It’s all so clean and sharp. The spins are clean, the jumps are so fast. It shut up Chris. And you can see the pure joy of the skate on his face.

 

[my little pony]

Ilia's voice on the track is not the flex Shae was hoping for

 

[Private Citizen]

Malinin surpassed Selevko on tech with five elements left... including two quad passes .

I thnink he is surpassing Midori Ito as being the skater in history most ahead of their peers. It could take 25+ years before we see content like this. Maybe longer.

Personal best deserved.

 

[Aceon6]

228 without the 4A. Hmmm, okay.

 

[Wyliefan]

Well, thank heaven not ALL the guys were lining up to try to hand Egadze a medal.

 

[Kaz7714]

Still hate the voice overs.... otherwise I am warming up to the program and the costume.

 

[tony]

This competition is kind of a wash as far as the GPF. Egadze with 3rd and 5th won't make it, Miura didn't get points for his first event and now bronze. Selevko as of now with only one event and a silver. Aymoz no chance.

Tomono 4th, probably has to win at Skate America to have any chance.

 

[my little pony]

"I will not forget this one in a hurry" is actually a great retort for when you dont know what to say

 

[peibeck]

is he a rapper now? or more of a talk singer like rex Harrison? I hate this

It's like a 13 year old trying to be an emo slam poet.

 

[sk8nlizard]

Miura back to throwing one competition away and rocking another, it seems (well until the second half).

3 LPs this season so far, this is one that is a repeat after getting 2 choreographed just for this year. I like his skating most probably behind Kagiyama and Aymoz but he's every bit as infuriating as the latter when it comes to consistency.

Just skate to Beauty and the Beast forever if you're going to bring something back.

His Beauty and the Beast program is my favorite of his!

 

[Braulio]

This competition is kind of a wash as far as the GPF. Egadze with 3rd and 5th won't make it, Miura didn't get points for his first event and now bronze. Selevko as of now with only one event and a silver. Aymoz no chance.

Tomono 4th, probably has to win at Skate America to have any chance.

Well Egadze then is not completely out of the math

 

[Private Citizen]

50+ points ahead of second place on tech . Crazy but deserved.

 

[~tapdancer~]

There are simply not enough superlatives to describe Ilia. What an incredible skate. I mean, I just have no words. I hope he keeps his form and even improve for the Olympics. He will blow the roof off. I loved the voiceovers, too. Best male skater ever. And will be for a while.

 

[Messalina]

"I will not forget this one in a hurry" is actually a great retort for when you dont know what to say

I love how so many of Chris' pronouncements can be taken whatever way happens to jibe with what you yourself are thinking − or the exact opposite way.

 

[Desperado]

I live in dread of the day they do away with the time change unless they stick to daylight savings time. If they go with standard time the sun will be fully up by 4 am here in the summer - that's wasted daylight and how rude.

I had no preference until I started reading stuff about how Standard is better in sync with our circadian rythms. Research is being done at University of Ottawa next door to me so I'm sold but I can see it could be different in other parts of the world.

 

[skategal]

Wow Ilia! Amazing.

Canada has been good to Ilia and he has been good to us.

This program has just enough cheese factor and voidiness for me to love it.

Rock on with your bad self, Ilia.

 

[tony]

Well Egadze then is not completely out of the math

18 points probably not but if they keep skating with wild results then who knows.

 

[kwanette]

This competition is kind of a wash as far as the GPF. Egadze with 3rd and 5th won't make it, Miura didn't get points for his first event and now bronze. Selevko as of now with only one event and a silver. Aymoz no chance.

Tomono 4th, probably has to win at Skate America to have any chance.

Make that happen, Tony..

 

[Aaron MB Fan]

I saw Ilia live first at Lake Placid at 2022 US Classic when he landed the first ever Quad Axel. Saw him live at Autumn Classic in 2023 and then again at 2024 Montreal Worlds, along with 2024 Skate America and Skate Canada. And then of course today.

Besides a new world record score for his LP, this was the greatest performance I’ve ever seen from him hands down. Wow. Just WOW!

 

[peibeck]

Andrei Chuvilyaev was at a relatively high level (Euros and Worlds appearance in pairs) and he was 6'6.5"

Also Laurent Tobel was very tall for a singles skater. (Maybe before your time, but a late 90s guy.) Not sure his height, but well over 6' I'm sure