{"id":156549,"date":"2026-01-30T13:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156549\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T13:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:29:08","slug":"how-does-panarin-fit-or-not-fit-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156549\/","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":156550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[70290,93,6755,75904,88,90,89,98,4254,3236],"class_list":["post-156549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-artemi-panarin","tag-featured","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nmc","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-sjhn","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}