Zharkov’s First Shows Hope Is Not Lost For Surging Devils
With not much to hang their hats on this season, the New Jersey Devils need to look to the future to get back to their winning ways. Coming into the season, the team was looking like a Stanley Cup...
View Article(Updated Again) Despite Signing with Wings, Nabokov Claimed by Islanders
(UPDATE Again) The Islanders have since suspended Nabokov for not reporting to the team. There have been reports of the goalie actually hanging up on GM Garth Snow having mistook him for a media...
View ArticleIslanders Set to Keep Nabby for Next Season
According to a New York’s Newsday, the New York Islanders are planning to retain the rights to goaltender Evgeni Nabokov for the 2011-2012 season. Nabokov was picked off waivers by the team after...
View ArticleNabokov Shows Commitment to Isles with New Mask
(courtesy of Ingoalmag.com) The 2010-2011 season for Evgeni Nabokov was a disaster of epic proportions. Having signed a four-year $24 million contract with SKA St.Petersburg of the KHL before quitting...
View ArticleFarjestad is Swedish for Shawinigan
(Courtesy of Sportsnet.ca) All day Friday the hockey newspapers reported Kirill Kabanov was heading to play in Farjestad of the Swedish Elite League (SEL). After weeks of figuring out what his next...
View ArticleComrade of the Night-Evgeni Malkin
Thursday night saw five different Russian NHL’ers light the lamp for their respective teams. While they were all important to the teams involved, one players performance stood slightly higher than the...
View ArticleLightning Nab Evgeni For One Year
Yesterday’s NHL free agent frenzy saw just one comrade ink a new deal, as 38-year-old netminder Evgeni Nabokov signed a one-year contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning. After returning from a stint in...
View ArticleIslanders Double Up on Grabovski and Kulemin
The New York Islanders pulled the biggest surprise on the second day of NHL free agency by signing two players that no one expected them to. Wednesday afternoon saw the Isles announce the acquisition...
View ArticleEvgeni Nabokov Retires from NHL as a Shark
On Wednesday afternoon, one the greatest goalies to ever don a Russian national jersey hung his skates up for good at the starting point of his hockey career. 39-year-old Evgeni Nabokov announced his...
View ArticleKulemin Ruled Out for Six Months
Islanders winger Nikolai Kulemin will miss the remainder of the regular season after having successful surgery on an undisclosed upper-body injury. The 31-year-old Magnitogorsk native was injured in a...
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