Final Days Of Sergei Shirokov Drama?
by Yankee Canuck on Aug 8, 2009 8:34 AM PDT
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Another burgeoning NHL/KHL "issue" is unfolding half a planet away that may - as early as next week perhaps - deliver Sergei Shirokov into the Vancouver Canucks hands.
As talked about earlier this summer, Shirokov was rumored to have signed a deal with Vancouver but the problem has been his current KHL contract with CSKA Moscow. Shirokov, along with Colorado prospect Denis Parshin, were given qualifying offers they didn't sign and, instead, took the legal route to get more money or be formerly released from their contracts.
According to a Soviet Sports article (really? Soviet?) via RussianPropects.com (g/t to David Driscoll-Carignan from Mile High Hockey for the head's up), both players will be suspended from CSKA Moscow if they don't report to the team by midnight on Monday, August 10th. If suspended, Shirokov claims he will head to Vancouver to continue his career. Though he admits in the same interview his preference is to stay in the KHL, making the Vancouver card sound more like a legal tactic than anything else.
So, depending on the next few days, there's a small chance the former sixth round pick will join the horde of potential third liners when training camp rolls around in a few weeks. Though one has to wonder if Shirokov, like Kirill Koltsov before him, is just toying with our fragile emotions and will remain in the KHL for the duration of his career.
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shrug
It’s not like he’s going to be the game-breaker we need want. I doubt he’s going to come to the NHL if odds are good he’ll end up in Manitoba for the season.
Shrug is a good way to put it. I wouldn’t mind seeing him in camp, giving him a chance to showcase his stuff. But making the cut is a tall order, especially this year.
'Nucks Misconduct - Housing Swedish Millionaires Since 2000.
by Yankee Canuck on Aug 8, 2009 9:20 AM PDT up reply actions
a Soviet Sports article (really? Soviet?)
c’mon, why change a good name just because the country doesn’t exist anymore…?
Would you make me number one on your playlist?
I should litter my posts with “Soviet” more often.
'Nucks Misconduct - Housing Swedish Millionaires Since 2000.
by Yankee Canuck on Aug 8, 2009 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions
is good player...no?
Love the Soviet site. That one is a keeper! Shirokov is talented though…with him, like some Russian players, its all about the drive and whether they want to come over.
Let’s wait until he is signed though….which I heard in the past he was.
Is that all bull? The article seems to give that idea…
vancitydan
Perhaps Sergei could tell the Canucks where to send all of Artem Chubarov’s
leftover mail in Van City. I miss good ol’ “Smiles” Chubarov
Chubarov…now THERE was a great checker!
by Sean Zandberg on Aug 8, 2009 5:25 PM PDT up reply actions
I always liked Chubarov and always wanted to see more of him. Do you suppose the Canucks have a negative reputation among the hockey players of Russia? What with Bure’s unpleasant departure, Chubarov leaving on his own, and the fact that very few (if any) Russian players have played here in recent years, it could just be that this beautiful city isn’t considered a good place to play.
Or Gastown needs to be remade into ‘Soviet-sexy-boom-discotheque-district’ as the folks back in Vladivostok call ‘em. Hell, invite Vlad Putin over to crab-wrestle a BC Grizzly Bear in a show of fidelity too. Bam!, we’ll be knee-deep in Malkin’s and Markov’s in no time.
The whole city will become a wash of tight eurotrash t-shirts, White Lamborginis on Granville
and dodgy ‘old friends visiting from Moscow’ if you know what I mean.
PEDANT ALERT!
In Malkin’s and Markov’s what shall we be knee-deep?
And yes, I’m a card carrying member of the Apostrophe Protection Society.
http://www.apostrophe.org.uk/
And so’s Bob, the Angry Flower:
http://www.angryflower.com/aposter.html
Although your way created several, uh, interesting mental images…
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