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Latest on Danis Zaripov
Will Evgeni Malkin get his wish and have Danis Zaripov flanking his left wing on opening night?
The ball is in the Penguins court, NHL sources say.
The Danis Zaripov camp informed the Penguins last week that Pittsburgh is one of two teams Zaripov wants to sign with, Inside Pittsburgh Sports has learned.
In fact, sources tell TIOPS Zaripov’s camp even made a [hide] proposal to Pittsburgh seven days ago of the term (1 year) and dollars Zaripov would want to sign with Pittsburgh. While not confirmed, the proposal was believed to be for around $2.5 million per season.
As of 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, though, Pittsburgh has yet to respond to the proposal and Zaripov’s agent hasn’t heard back from the Penguins in a week.
“They know what we want,” a source in the Zaripov camp tells TIOPS.
Despite the lack of communication between the two sides for a week now, the Penguins internally are still weighing the possibility, multiple team sources confirm.
Two primary factors:
1. Patric Hornqvist’s health, Pittsburgh wants to see where that goes. If it’s determined Hornqvist will miss more time than anticipated, signing Zaripov increases.
2. Mike Sullivan wanted to showcase the young wingers for the first week in camp before Pittsburgh made any commitment.
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DiNucci starting. Other changes as well. Hope these payoff. Go Pitt!!!
Crosby with Guentzel and TK 2.0 in practice today – UH OH Sam!!!!!!!!!!
Oilers preseason… no McDavid… no Nuge… no, well a lot of guy but I’m sure there are more people here than we’ve seen at Habs regular season games most nights!
Jayson Megna just scored for Van… I remember when Sammich drooled over him
Just thumbs down from both your accounts? Disappointing you white supremacist, hypernationalist, wannabe Canadian, virginal bandwagon!
Fat sam probably thinks your black, so he fired double guns.
Well, in fairness, hip hop is my music of choice… in fact today is a Gangstarr kind of day (caveat, mostly 90s hip hop… can’t do the Drake or that mumble shit today)!
Pass on the Russian Max Talbot. Also, FCUK SAM!!!!!
How many of you have more than 1 account?
The sammich raises four to six hands lol
I hope Sam’s mom gets him a 3rd account for christmas.
Considering the effects of inbreeding, i wouldnt doubt it.
Dejan needs a new hockey writer. Any ideas?
Gaydogg.
He has plenty of space to write his long boring novels in his bar
I hope he’s aloud
His good at writing.
I for one am happy that D put an article out that I’m interested in. Thank you!
Watch out rocky you will make enemies and get thumbs down from stain you are not aloud to be positive and like something. Unless you get approved by stain
That’s not why you are treated the way you are. Rocky is fine… you on the other hand are a white supremacist, hyper-nationalist piece of crap, this is why you get shit on. That and you’re dumb as sin but act like everyone should bow to you lol
Aloud
Pesonen 2.0 ZeroFOOL u may start drooling over him as well
I want zero to do with him… I mean I guess he would be a better fit than say… I dunno just spit ballin but… Martin St Louis! Remember the guy whose balls you wanted to wash in your mouth as he retired?
No one “drooled” over Pesonen, people were cautiously optimistic at best fucktard
He might suck, but I wouldn’t mind seeing what he can do. Certainly not going to drop 2.5 on the guy, but he’s a free asset. No harm in looking into someone that you don’t have to risk anything for.
He’s over 35 – what you do is give him a base salary of $1-$1.5M that can get him to $2.5M with performance bonuses – that way, everyone’s happy if he’s getting $2.5M.
I see Sam thumbs downed me already from one of his mom’s accounts.
Let me rephrase, I want zero to do with him at the money he is asking for due to the age and perceived lack of ability to move. While there is some intrigue based on his KHL performance and maybe there would be some chemistry with Geno I am more concerned about C3 and would like that sorted before adding another winger to the roster.
Stanch has listed the type of deal I would prefer to see based on the concerns he brings.
Plotnikov?
Man if he’s Pesonen 2.0the way Sheary is TK 2.0,sign me up.
Good gawd. 2.5 for an old guy who never played in the NHL.
I do it for 1.5. 2.5…..pass.
If you learned it’s down to two teams, and one of them is Pittsburgh, who’s the other one? Let’s lock you into another team.
Let me guess the caps
I knew when I saw Elliot Friedman allude to this earlier, D would have “breaking news” in a few hours. D and Sam are basically the same – D puts out a new article when a real journalist breaks news – Sam pretends he broke a story when thefourthperiod.com posts a new article.
And u pretend you knew about hockey news before even rumors were created. When all your hockey info u get on this site. Can’t lie or deny it because the proof is there you own 2 accounts and you are 24/7 on this site
There’s nothing I love more than when the guy with two accounts accuses someone else of having two accounts. It’s almost as good as when the guy who goes around “thumbs downing”everyone from his two accounts accuses everyone else of spreading negativity by thumbs downing him. Never change, fatty