On Danis Zaripov and the Pittsburgh Penguins
The Pittsburgh Penguins are not at the point yet where they can be tabbed as having strong interest in 36 year old winger Danis Zaripov, but the team is doing some homework on the winger after Zaripov’s agent reached out to the Penguins last week to gauge any possible interest.
Zaripov, 36, had 15 goals and 22 points in 18 games with Metallurg Magnitogorsk during the playoffs, and 45 points in 56 games during the regular season. Zaripov is considered a legendary Russian player who won the KHL’s Gagarin Cup four times and the world hockey championship three times.
Among the biggest strengths in Zaripov’s game is his playmaking ability and hockey smarts, scouts say. He thinks the game at a high level who is “always in the right place,” and can play with high-end players one scout indicated.
NHL clubs are intrigued about Zaripov, there’s no doubt about that.
He’s looking for the “right opportunity to compete for a Stanley Cup,” a source close to the situation said of Zaripov.
As of tonight, Zaripov has not received an offer that’s enticed the Zaripov camp to push forward yet and begin discussing a role, ect with the coaching staff which is very important before Zaripov who is currently training in Russia decides to sign with a team.
One of the primary teams the Zaripov camp would love to come forward with an offer is the Washington Capitals, who have just 10 forwards on 1-way contracts and Zaripov is close with the Russian players.
Like Pittsburgh, no offer yet from Washington.
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The focus is trying to chase the dream of landing with a Stanley Cup caliber team, the Zaripov camp insists.
As for Pittsburgh, while no offer has been made by the Penguins and not one is imminent, per a team source, the team is still deliberating and figure to get back in touch with the agent later this week on whether they intend to make an offer or not.
Jason Mackey of Post-Gazette reported today the Penguins are taking a long look at Zaripov and that’s where things still stand as of late tonight.
Penguins GM Jim Rutherford and his staff have received glowing reports about Zaripov from fellow Russians Evgeni Malkin and Sergei Gonchar that the Penguins have taken the step where head coach Mike Sullivan has conducted some film study.
However, as highly recommended as Zaripov can come from the likes of Malkin and Gonchar, the problem the Zaripov camp has endured from Stanley Cup contenders that are doing homework on Zaripov is no coaches from ‘teams they would like to sign with’ have seen him play in person.
The biggest questions scouts have is the skating ability combined with the age, though, Zaripov doesn’t have the type of wear and tear a career 36 year old NHLer would have as he’s never played more than 60 games in a season (regular season).
“32 year old legs,” a source said of Zaripov.
What’s the buzz on Zaripov from scouts about his skating?
These are not glowing reports.
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Another scout: “He plays at a [hide] slower pace that doesn’t fit with what a lot of clubs like to do. It’s a young mans game,” the scout said.
Other feedback around the league is if you want to an old top-9 winger who can’t skate very well, you might as well sign Jaromir Jagr.
Growing consensus is that Zaripov isn’t a great fit for the Penguins system but maybe at the end of the day, the Penguins decide to throw Malkin a bone for being a good soldier all these years.
Evgeni Malkin: I’d like to see Danis Zaripov in #Pens. I’d enjoy playing with him on one line
— Igor Eronko (@IgorEronko) August 30, 2017
“If Malkin wants him, they should sign him,” one NHL source said of the Penguins.
Someone is going to take a chance on Zaripov, just remains to be seen whether that chance will come from a Cup contender.
What a lot of coaches would want is bring Zaripov in on a PTO.[/hide]
Bucs gotta finish 14-5 just to get to .500. They got this Benny?
Browne blows like some of the posts on here.
ha, people claim he’s an nfl talent. He has no picket awareness and can’t drop the ball in the bucket. All he could do was shovel pass.
Yeah I’m not impressed. He floated a few balls early as well. He looked nervous. How about Franklin’s comments after? Saying beating Pitt is like beating Akron. He said we celebrated last year like we won the Super Bowl. Throwin shade!
Pitt’s super bowl was being the only team to beat the national champions.
I get his point and agree that all non-conference games are the same….but he’s a d-bag and knows what he did and knew he was disrespecting Pitt. They really should have crushed Pitt by a larger margin. I don’t see them finishing top 10 this year.
Go Pitt!
Agreed. Not looking good. You can’t go offside on a3rd and 7.
D, need more material before the savages eat each other.
Yeah new articles so they can give new thumbs down to people
Remember Sam was crying about how everyone is negative?
I remember that. We can’t all be positive like him with his incessant racism and canadian nationalism.
Racism? Dude your country is built through racism. Most racist country in the world. For get being racist about other countries you clowns don’t even get along internally. Bunch of fat Arrogant fuckks
Incessant racism, sam. You’re a giant racist assholle. Everyone knows that.
If you look in the dictionary the word Americans. Description comes up. Fat, Arrogant lazy and racist. That they think they are a country yet they are divided between races and states. And fraud themselves to the world as UNITED. States. Only thing is united is laziness and fat people .ohh and some KFC across the so called country
I just looked it up. It doesn’t say that. Another lie from sam the racist that doesn’t know what a vaginaa feels like. Like the time he made up franchise values that were double what he said they were. That’s our sam!
So negative…
Good job for the penguins for hiring Kevin Stevens as special assignment scout. When he was sentenced to probation and fined 10k in may after pleading guilty to a federal drug charge . Maybe now he can attract Malone to come back to Pittsburgh too
Wonder if his mom paid the fine the way your mommy still takes care of her little virgin
No he had to barrow from his hookers that he gave money to them while back But you wouldn’t know that since your hockey only started since 05 Crosby era
Regardless of when I started watching hockey (which is long before you had pubes), how would I know about this hooker credit program he’s utilizing?
Or maybe Ribero as well. since pens are looking for a 3C always
At least this year’s 9/11 can’t be blamed on terrorists
Now thumbs down if you don’t agree. Npl, tbj,stain,coachDouchebag, zerotool
Apparently some dumb Florida people don’t want to move away to a safe zone and want to stay where the hurricane is. I wonder if Npl is one of those dummies
D, any word on whether the Pens might resign Jiri Slegr?
Michael Bennett is a victim
D is killing it with the rookie camp coverage. Rest of the local press better be on f’ing notice.
If Irma kills me, please honor me by reminding Sam that he sucks every day until he cancels all of his accounts.
Irma is finished now you may go outside and fly a kite
Pokémon!
I remember when we lost you the first time in the aftermath of Hillary’s defeat.
good luck with Irma, npl. stay safe buddy
Chance we get slammed here in NC depending on the path, too. But yeah – seems like NPL is going to take it right in the poop chute. Good luck buddy. (I’m sure sam will thumbs down this post)
good luck to you, too, then. im in Jacksonville, so im preparing to take this up the ol’ chute as well.
mattyV think it will hit Jacksonville hard?
the latest projection is about to miss jax by about 100 miles offshore, which would yield winds in the city along the lines of a category 3. they are projecting the heaviest stuff here will be early on Monday morning.
I’m out in Glendale if anyone not named Sam needs a place to crash.
Coming your way in December, tbj.
Catching the pens game? I was thinking about going. Gila arena is a $hithole. I’m also bouncing around the idea of Vegas for the game there. Everything is so close together though, as I’m flying back a couple days later.
Going to try to – going to be in Vegas for the Pens game – tickets are a real bitchh there surprisingly.
Yeah maybe after all this thumbs down you give to people you can finally use a thumbs up to hitch hick yourself to California
Glendale is in Arizona, moron.
He is probably outside alone protesting black lives matter
Whereas you’re inside, alone, wondering what a vaginaa feels like.
Why would he be protesting them?
12 days till 1st preseason game. D killing it with camp/season preview articles.
Won’t make a difference if he posted an article or not most people here their season only starts in April. Just ask tbj, stain and that fat fuckk Npl
We should have him post articles on the Habs, because every game matters to them – they’ll be scratching and clawing to make the playoffs, virgin.
Any Castlevania fans?
I’m just glad the Penguins got a new TV broadcaster Staggy was. so awful…can’t keep up with the play..Mike Lange should just do a simo-cast he is so good..
As a side note – I read this morning that Staggy’s mom passed away – she was like 102 or something.
Mike Lange also did this to himself – he was really bad at the tail end of his tenure doing TV. Had become mighty lazy. He was still better than Staggy, but he found himself all over again on the radio. I think Mears will do a nice job. Nothing flashy, but he calls a good game.
Mears did a period in place of Lange a couple years back. He did well but was a bit over-excited. I think he’ll be fine. Seems like a good guy that loves the team.
Stanchion: your actually right once. Lange got lazy and would bitch how long the games took like he had something more important.
I saw that. Sad news, but she had a great life.
Thanks Yoda!
I know some people hate Steigy’s broadcasting style, but he’s a very good man and he absolutely bleeds black and gold. If you ever met him, you would not hate on him.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/lonely-planet-gives-edmonton-harsh-review-city-councillors-bite-back-1.3576661
Tell us something we didn’t know.
It cute how you reinforce that the one poster you see eye to eye with the most is sammich lol.
Well Yoda’s gone now – so it’s just the two of them sharing a california king.
We know sams mom ain’t paying for a king and deigo would be cleaning park benches before he sleeps if his wife found out so I’m sure they are sharing a single found tossed aside in an alley.
ect
I say no to this old Russian he won’t even survive 20 games. He is another version of pesonen a guy that many of you drooled over like zeroTool and same was right about him too.
20 more games than Martin St Louis played after you said to get him.
Agreed he is talented… but older he doesn’t fit the penguins up tempo style…even if Malkin wants him..our luck he will go to the Capitals fit in well with Kunetzov and score 30 LOL
“Drooled over” – when’s good Canadian Doan gonna rescue us from Kessel dipshit? Unlike you my expectations are generally tempered, I don’t drool over players who’ve never played an NHL game and have come over from Europe.
That was a painful read.
D – Not sure what’s worse, your sentence structure or the fact you got bullied into writing an uninteresting story.
You’re right, there is so much more he could have spoken on and has a full 24 hours before the last article disables. Brilliant
No way be goes to a team on a PTO. Seems like something a Russian star wouldn’t be into.
Why every time a new or rare person writes here gets a automatic thumbs down. I bet it’s from those same cyber bullies
If you’re an adult, and you use the term “bully,” you’re probably a raging pusssy that needs his mom to make his/her car payments.
Speaking of raging pusssies, here comes the guy who’s never played a competitive team sport.
Oh – of course I have. I just don’t think it lends itself to some sort of insight over anyone else with a pair of eyes. You think 3 “seasons” of competitive dek hockey on your wife’s dime somehow makes you special. It doesn’t.
Who are you kidding. The last team sport you played was 6th grade co-ed soccer. Your mom made you quit after it was obvious you were too fat to keep up.
And we’ve already established you’re the Pitt suburb Dek hockey hero. Remember, it’s the only jersey you have with your name in it.
No – we established that your beer league prowess is what finally put you over the top to be able to get to Yoda’s level in critiquing Fleury. Everyone knows that. #KeenDekHockeyEye Rumor has it, this also helps you locate rogue shittstains your old lady leaves you on the bowl.
btw – you’re killing it as far as analysis goes lately – shy of coming here to be the grouchy uncle that relieves the stress of being poor and having no real direction or purpose in life, what do you bring here? I guess you could lean on snarky sarcasm, but you’re not even really good at that. You did come up with that “midget” nickname, that everyone loved.
You’re right. I’ve been short on insight during the busy hockey summer months. I should spend more time speculating on mindless crap or bettter yet continue my self-esteem road tour by cyber bullying a foreign language speaker.
You’re short on insight. You don’t need to limit it to a specified period. Cyber bullying a foreign language speaker! Good god. Don’t get me wrong – I think it’s good that you ditch diggers stick together.
At this point I’m not sure where sam ends and Diego begins.
Look, the Edmonton tattler is back. Slow time at the drive thru?
There goes Maloni, being a “cyber bully.” Goes nice with a dash of sanctimony, no?
Most disliked man in the internet. Hands down. Explains why you’re still single.
You have to hate outing yourself as a hypocrite within like 45 minutes. Careless.
Also – the internet’s a pretty big place – maybe top 10% – but again, who cares? It’s the internet.
And I’m not single – but you thinking I am? Again – who cares? You clean up shitt and do laundry for a living. You’re intellectually on a level with sam and yoda. What you think amounts to a cup of “who gives a fuckk?”
Yeah Diego he is not single. He is a player. He has his right hand and left hand when he gets tired of the right hand gf
No one needs to jerkoff with your ho mama dragging her ass across living room carpets all over North America
Another zinger sam. You kill us with your wit, trust me. Seems like an odd post for the virginal bandwagon man, though.
I’ve yet to find anyone that embodies hypocrisy on line the way this loser does. Gets upset because when i out yoda for jumping between pages but vehemently defends him. Calls others “cyber bully” yet ignores Sams extensive body of work in this area, in fact uses the same white knight tactics with him. Guys a walking parody of projection lol. It’s just another avatar that, when gone, the quality of relevant conversation improves. He’s basically the love child of Sam and yoda
Wait so am I a “computer programmer”? Or working at a drive through? Please explain hypocrite house husband of samdiego. Also when you piss sitting down do you remember to wipe front to back?
So a minute ago, I never played team sports, which obviously puts me at a detriment when compared to San Diego male housewife…and now I played co-ed soccer? Make up your mind.
You’re right. You couldn’t make the 6th grade co-ed soccer team.
Ba-zing! It’s gotta be hard to type that out while holding a plunger. I’m proud of you.
Stanch, seriously, let me know if we’re looking at another season of plumber jokes. I need to mentally prepare.
You need to mentally prepare when you set out to make a bowl of cold cereal.
Really? Were you distracted when you typed that.
What’s Dek hockey again…you were first one to introduce term to me.
Can’t blame Same for all the thumbs down. You could be the most disliked poster in the history of TIOPS.
Oh no! Not faceless people on a message board! Who cares?
You need to reconcile your shiit. Youre the same dude that volunteers personal information to a Internet site full of strangers.