Winger Artemi Panarin has three goals and four assists in five games for the New York Rangers.
And no, it’s not just because the star Russian wing shaved the pounds of curls off his head roughly a week after he returned to his home country this past offseason, which many inferred wasSo the 31-year-old called up his good friend, who drove three hours to cut his hair in a traditional Russian sauna — a banya — which is heated with firewood.Over the next three months, every time he went to re-shave it, she begged him to grow it back.
Under a veiled guise of anonymity to regular people around the world, Panarin has flourished in the hockey world to start the 2023-24 season. The only players in Rangers history to have a similar streak in back-to-back years are Andy Bathgate and Rod Gilbert.He’s played aggressively with the puck, while remaining defensively responsible.
Despite shedding some weight in hair, Panarin said he actually gained weight this offseason, during which he tried to lift more than usual in order to try something different with his routine.
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