{"id":76334,"date":"2025-08-12T04:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T04:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/76334\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T04:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T04:36:09","slug":"breaking-down-newest-ny-islanders-forward-maxim-shabanovs-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/76334\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking down newest NY Islanders forward Maxim Shabanov\u2019s game"},"content":{"rendered":"

How He Landed on the Island:<\/p>\n

The New York Islanders had one of the most successful off-seasons in recent memory. From the NHL Draft to free agency, it was an eventful first summer for Mathieu Darche. <\/p>\n

One of his moves was acquiring Maxim Shabanov<\/a>, a 24-year-old forward from Traktor Chelyabinsk of the KHL. The ‘Shabanov sweepstakes’ reportedly came down to the Islanders, New York Rangers, and Philadelphia Flyers. <\/p>\n

The Islanders won the contest and signed Shabanov to a one-year contract worth $975,000 on July 2, 2025. <\/p>\n

KHL Stats and Achievements:<\/p>\n

At the KHL level, Maxim Shabanov collected quite an impressive stat line. Last season, he played 65 games, scoring 23 goals and 44 assists, for a team-leading 67 points. He only took nine minor penalties and had a +17 rating.<\/p>\n

In the playoffs, he played 21 games, scoring 10 goals and 10 assists for 20 points, two penalty minutes, and a +14 rating. His team, Traktor Chelyabinsk, unfortunately, lost in the KHL Gagarin Cup Final in 5 games to Yaroslavl Lokomotiv. <\/p>\n

One statistic that stands out is his penalty minute totals during his KHL career. In 207 regular-season games and 36 playoff games, Shabanov only recorded 30 total penalty minutes, according to eliteprospects.com and the KHL’s official website.<\/p>\n

In 207 KHL games, he scored 150 points for a 0.72 points-per-game average. After 36 career playoff games, he finished with 31 points and a 0.86 pts\/game. Shabanov was also a 2-time KHL All-Star in 2023 and 2025. <\/p>\n

With the signing of Shabanov, the Islanders’ roster potentially includes five Russian players on opening night: Ilya Sorokin, Semyon Varlamov<\/a>, Alexander Romanov, Maxim Tsyplakov, and Maxim Shabanov. The four existing Russians could have been a swaying factor for Shabanov to sign with the Islanders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How He Landed on the Island: The New York Islanders had one of the most successful off-seasons in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-76334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}