{"id":222399,"date":"2025-09-13T02:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T02:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/222399\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T02:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T02:12:10","slug":"maxim-shabanov-already-making-outsized-islanders-impression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/222399\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxim Shabanov already making outsized Islanders impression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago, it was Maxim Tsyplakov explaining why he made the leap from the KHL to the Islanders and trying to make an impression in rookie camp before starting the season in the top six.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Friday, it was Maxim Shabanov explaining, with the help of Gleb Veremyev \u2014 who acted as his interpreter \u2014 much the same, with essentially the same goal in mind.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Islanders\u2019 inroads into Russia, with two consecutive years signing the top free agent out of the KHL and five Russians expected to be on their roster this season, have quietly built into a weapon, and if there is one member of Lou Lamoriello\u2019s scouting staff who Mathieu Darche should keep around forever, it is European scout Jim Paliafito. <\/p>\n<p>For all the noise around the Rangers and Minnesota\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/10\/sports\/wilds-kirill-kaprizov-turns-down-richest-contract-in-nhl-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unsigned superstar Kirill Kaprizov<\/a>, it is worth noting too that Kaprizov and Ilya Sorokin are extremely close friends and former teammates at CSKA Moscow.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A year ago, it was Maxim Tsyplakov explaining why he made the leap from the KHL to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":222400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[1301,293,62,2225,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-222399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-new-york-islanders","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-sports-plus","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115194569966990167","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}