Despite the early ending of the regular season because of the pandemic coronavirus, this season Panarin became the most successful in the career. He spent 69 games and scored 95 (32 goals + 63 assists) points. Artemy shared the third place in the ranking of scorers with the Czech forward “Boston” by David Pastrnak.
among the bidders were also canadian Nathan MacKinnon of the Colorado. To his credit, 93 (35 goals, 85 assists) points. Well, another candidate for top scorer of the regular season, the winner of the “Art Ross Trophy” German Leon Dreiseitl from Edmonton, on account of which 110 (43+67) points.
Recall that the current holder of the “Ted Lindsay Award” is the forward of “Tampa” Evgeniy Kucherov, established last season with 128 (41+87) points record among Russians in the NHL. In addition to his award, also received Sergei Fedorov, who played for Detroit (1994), Alexander Ovechkin of Washington (2008-2010) and Evgeni Malkin from “Pittsburgh” (2012).
Perhaps soon these prizes will qualify a new generation of Russians in the NHL. Cyril Whims and Ilya Sorokin, who played for CSKA Moscow, has signed an agreement with “Minnesota” and “new York islanders”, respectively. In addition, in force a contract of one soldier by Alexander Romanov with “Montreal”, issued in may.
unfortunately, a new collective agreement with the NHL players Union will not allow Russians to go overseas on the ice this season. But, as a compromise, they were invited to training camps for their teams, and most importantly – the right to “burn” the first year of the rookie contract. This means that the 2019/20 season they will go into the standings.
After the news about contracts appeared first digits. According to insider information, salary Sorokin in the 2020/21 season will be one million dollars. The same amount he earns in bonuses. And the vagaries of the selected slot number is “97”.