{"id":436332,"date":"2026-01-30T14:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/436332\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T14:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:08:11","slug":"how-does-panarin-fit-or-not-fit-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/436332\/","title":{"rendered":"How Does Panarin Fit (or Not Fit) Sharks? (+)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON \u2014 Does Artemi Panarin fit the San Jose Sharks?<\/p>\n<p>San Jose Hockey Now reported on Wednesday that the Sharks had inquired about Panarin, and that the pending UFA winger would be willing to sign an extension with San Jose.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s talk about off the ice first, then on the ice.<\/p>\n<p>In Apr. 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6284856\/2025\/04\/17\/artemi-panarin-sexual-assault-settlement-ny-rangers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Athletic reported<\/a> that Panarin and MSG Sports had reached a settlement with a former New York Rangers employee, who accused Panarin of sexual assault in Dec. 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Panarin allegedly pinned the employee down on his hotel bed, before she pushed him off and left the room.<\/p>\n<p>The settlement included a nondisclosure agreement and no admission of wrongdoing from Panarin.<\/p>\n<p>These are serious allegations, and something for San Jose Sharks GM Mike Grier to address if he does indeed acquire Panarin.<\/p>\n<p>What about Panarin on the ice?<\/p>\n<p>SJHN reached out to two NHL scouts, neither with the Sharks or Rangers, and two other league sources, to share their thoughts on the player. Is the 34-year-old still an elite winger? Does his play style fit the San Jose Sharks?<\/p>\n<p>Also, if you\u2019re Grier, what\u2019s a good price to pay for Panarin?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2014 Does Artemi Panarin fit the San Jose Sharks? San Jose Hockey Now reported on Wednesday that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5127],"tags":[3039,58,5,35,4,12385,519,168,5306,5305,1780,169,3613],"class_list":{"0":"post-436332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose-sharks","8":"tag-artemi-panarin","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-new-york-rangers","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-nmc","14":"tag-san-jose","15":"tag-san-jose-sharks","16":"tag-sanjose","17":"tag-sanjosesharks","18":"tag-sharks","19":"tag-sjhn","20":"tag-trade"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115984446551453620","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}