so we lost our top scoring forward and top scoring defenseman to politics. This rebuild is falling apart fast. Do we have any other political activists on the team?
Confirmed with Link: Panarin taking leave of absence from NYR (Warning in First Post)
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Mandar
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Did you really just equate the two situations? I guess Forrest Gump’s mom was right about stupid....
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Honestly I didn't really believe that it was more than a drunken bs from washed out Dirty Naz just to slender Panarin who he very much dislikes but apparently the information about this story was first published in an American press. On Feb 16th. By some socialist journalist Caleb T. Maupin. Who also happens to work for RT America. And then after a few days when they realized that there wasn't any noise about it in the US as if they probably hoped they decided to drop a more straightforward bomb through Russian media. Dirty Naz is a pretty poor pick for this though. Zero credibility.
Not that anyone cares, but turns out I was in Riga that same weekend. Might have stayed at the same hotel ( Not sure, because there are a few Radisson hotels in Riga ). I wasn't at the game, and if I remember correclty, we flew home on sunday afternoon, the day of the game. So I probably wasn't in town during the time of the alleged Panarin incident.
And to my knowledge, I didn't see any hockey players there either. But my friends did see Stanley Cup winner Ville Nieminen ( who at the time played for Dinamo Riga ) at hotel lobby bar. If I remember the story correctly, Nieminen apparently wasn't all that pleased about a bunch of drunken Finns shouting his name in hotel lobby bar, and greeted them back with a couple of choice Finnish words that made his displeasure well known.
This wasn't the first time I missed on a chance meeting with Finnish Stanley Cup champion, in the company of the same loudmouth friend / colleague. One time at work, while I was taking a break to handle some personal business of the number two variety, Esa Tikkanen visited our place of work. All though I have met Tikkanen before, it would have been nice to be there to meet him.
And to my knowledge, I didn't see any hockey players there either. But my friends did see Stanley Cup winner Ville Nieminen ( who at the time played for Dinamo Riga ) at hotel lobby bar. If I remember the story correctly, Nieminen apparently wasn't all that pleased about a bunch of drunken Finns shouting his name in hotel lobby bar, and greeted them back with a couple of choice Finnish words that made his displeasure well known.
This wasn't the first time I missed on a chance meeting with Finnish Stanley Cup champion, in the company of the same loudmouth friend / colleague. One time at work, while I was taking a break to handle some personal business of the number two variety, Esa Tikkanen visited our place of work. All though I have met Tikkanen before, it would have been nice to be there to meet him.
would they still be in the lineup if they kept their political views/stances out of social media? I obviously think Panarin is right and ADA is wrong, but regardless these people are getting paid to play hockey, not stick their noses in the politics and especially not on social media.
Haha, but you know the insinuation of the post I was responding to.
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What? Sorry, I didn't quite understand what you mean. I said that at first I thought that it was more like an initiative from Dirty Naz, dumb ass-kissing to Putin on his part but then I found out that there was RT involved before so now I have my doubts. It's a hit piece. But a really dumb and poorly thought out one. If I were Putin I would be really disappointed by this unprofessionalism.
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I don't wanna steer this into a bad place but Caleb Maupin is a Nazbol.
Sparknotes version, that means economically socialist and socially...well, you know what Naz stands for.
So that tells you about him.
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Yeah I'd rather not go there. But not a fan of throwing this 'nazi' buzzword around. Nazbol is an insulting name for a follower of National Bolshevism ideology which of course includes some fascist (another buzzword) ideas. Anyway, not a fan of all of those so again, let's just not go there.
P.S. Unless by Naz you meant Nazarov
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Well, he's not secretive about it, so....
Point being, I wouldn't believe a word he says.
It was supposed to say "linking". I couldn't find out anything linking Caleb Maupin and Panarin when I googled both of their names.
Yeah, my point wasn't wether to believe him or not though but rather there is a proven RT involvement in all this days before Nazarov's interview.
I linked his article about it though, you could've just clicked it. Here it is again.
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I feel like if Putin is doing this, they’re going to have to be smuggled out. If Putin wants his family dead, they’ll be killed. In retrospect, Panarin should have gotten them all out far sooner. As for now, he’s in a tough spot. I’d totally get if he took the rest of the season off to explore all diplomatic avenues to get them out safely. Sucks, but it is what it is.
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Maupin actually makes all the sense in the world.
Russian posters have pointed out that this isn't as big of a deal over there as we might think. The story there is old and never gained much traction.
Maupin lives in New York. He would know who Panarin is and is one of the few ardent Putin supporters on this side of the world.
Russian posters have pointed out that this isn't as big of a deal over there as we might think. The story there is old and never gained much traction.
Maupin lives in New York. He would know who Panarin is and is one of the few ardent Putin supporters on this side of the world.
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