Last week, Ted Leonsis spread his wings by launching Monumental Network, a site  to aggregate all the Caps, Wizards, Mystics, and Verizon Center coverage his company produces. They’ve got original reporting and a network of blogs to cover the living heck out of each team.

Earlier this week, Casey Phillips, Monumental’s digital correspondent crowded in on RMNB’s beat with a story that we should have had. After Cosmopolitan Magazine named Mike Green the sexiest player in the NHL, the Monumental crew asked the team who they thought was truly the most handsome guy around.

The answers will amaze you. Or maybe they won’t. I mean, you know they’re gonna say Brooks, right?

Jason Chimera

“I’m pretty good looking. My line-mate Joel Ward’s a good looking guy. Mike Ribeiro’s a good looking guy. …I don’t think any of our team is good looking.”

Jay Beagle

“I think Joey Crabb should take his place. Um, Mike Green’s a good looking guy, don’t get me wrong, but I think Crabber could give him a run for his money.”

Eric Fehr

“I think in the top 30 they should have Braden Holtby. He’s a real sharp young lad. He dresses the part. You know he’s a real good looking guy.”

Joel Ward

“I would just like to see who’s writing that stuff.”

Braden Holtby

“I think Greenie fits the part well. Dresses really well, has a nice style too. He’s got some good looking tattoos and whatnot. He definitely deserves that [honor].”

John Carlson

“[Mike Green's] definitely a good looking guy yeah.”

Mike Green

“Prolly the pretty boy Brooks Laich. All the girls seem to like him.”

Is anyone else surprised it took that long before someone named Brooks?

Readers, Mike Green is so awesome, he has won a trophy before the season has even begun. On Tuesday, Cosmopolitan Magazine named the two-time Norris nominee as the sexiest player in all of hockey. Brooks Laich, who recently graced the cover of Shy Magazine, did not make the list. It is possible that Brooks, like Right Said Fred before him, was too sexy for the list.

Green, accepted his figurative award today at Kettler Capitals IcePlex, by looking splendid in his white Capitals jersey, blue snow pants, and…

Photo credit: Ted Starkey

A grizzly lockout beard-thing. No, seriously, you guys, what is that? It’s like the Geico caveman version of Mike Green.

The last time we featured MG52 on RMNB was last month, when he bought drinks for Caps fans at Front Page Arlington. There, to quote my girlfriend, he looked like a “beautiful and clean-shaven man who has perfected the smolder.” Since then: no clue. It’s like all grooming habits have ceased and he’s angling  for a walk-on role on Duck Dynasty.

Oh yeah, the award. Cosmo is a big deal I guess, and they clearly put a lot of energy into this not-at-all-random list of NHL players that inexplicably excludes Henrik Lundqvist. But I wanna know what you guys think: Is Mike Green the hottest man in hockey? Is he even the hottest man on his own team?