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Jim Rutherford has recently mentioned European free agents. I wrote about this yesterday but here is a refresher on his quote anyways.
From Dave Molinari
NOTES — Rutherford said the Penguins still are trying to sign “a couple” of free agents from Europe or college, “but I don’t know where that stands.”
Yesterday this tweet came out:
Andrei Kostitsyn spent a majority of his career with the Montreal Canadiens and has been playing in the KHL the past few seasons. He is now 30 years old and is looking to come back to the NHL.
Nothing eye popping but he does have multiple 20 goal seasons.
Worth mentioning is the team he played for in 2014-15. Sochi FC is the same team that Ryan Whitney played for. That is the team that hasn’t paid their players. It would make sense that Andrei Kostitsyn would take less salary in the NHL in return for the certainty of actually getting his money.
He finished the season strong with 31 points in 37 games. KHL scoring rates are lower than the NHL. Even superstars like Ilya Kovalchuk barely hit the point per game barrier or sometimes not at all.
At even-strength Kostitsyn did a decent job of creating offense
From 2007-12 Kostitsyn had an even-strength points per 60 of 1.83.
Kostitsyn was not a liability from a possession standpoint when in the NHL
At the end of the day Pittsburgh should be inquiring and evaluating any and all options. Andrei Kostitsyn is a part of that.
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