After spending part of last season in the minor leagues for the first time in years, Cedric Paquette is heading to the KHL. The free agent forward has signed a contract with Dinamo Minsk for the upcoming campaign.
Paquette, 29 (just a few days ago), played 24 games for the Montreal Canadiens and 14 for the Laval Rocket in 2021-22. That was his first minor league experience since 2014-15, when he was still just a young player with the Tampa Bay Lightning.
For his career, Paquette has racked up 95 points in 448 games, playing limited minutes as a bottom-six center. Given that he didn’t score a single goal for the Canadiens in his 24 games – and the emergence of some other young players for the team – it wasn’t a surprise that they didn’t bring him back this year.
But heading to the KHL may still raise some eyebrows, given how close to NHL-caliber he still is. During his short time in the minor leagues, he showed exactly why he doesn’t belong there, scoring nine goals in 14 regular season games.
Paquette will certainly be a name to remember for next offseason, though a year spent in the KHL isn’t going to help his stock unless his offensive game goes through the roof. It is perhaps a sign of just how difficult it is right now for fringe players to land deals as teams continue to deal with tight financial situations.
Hopefully he’ll be paid in Rubles that will be worth nothing.
I’d hope for his sake he isn’t, but I guess to each throw own?
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Nice uninformed tantrum. The idiotic sanctions attempted by the dolts in the US and European governments didn’t work. They rarely do. Russia continues to exports large amounts of energy and minerals and the ruble has rebounded in a big way. You obviously don’t venture past the safety of the sports page.
Dynamo Minsk is a team in Belarus, genius. Belarus is not russia
What? I will type slower this time in an attempt to have you keep up. My post was not about the location of a team but rather about the economics of Russia and the ruble. (see the post to which I responded). As Belarus is very dependent on Russian energy, the Belarus ruble and Russian ruble are tied together economically. With the Russian ruble strong, the Belarus ruble retains strength. So in response to the knucklehead who hopes that Cedric Paquette gets paid in worthless money, I provided some economic reality. Same simple lesson that you needed. You’re welcome.
Red Wings !!
Given what’s going on over there this would be my last choice and only if the pay was astronomically different than what you could get here.
The KHL games streamed on Portable TV were a revelation. The play was fast and continuous and cheating is kept to a minimum. No cross-checking from behind or slashing the hands. In many ways a superior game to the North American version.
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