Ziyat Paigin is not far away from being an NHLer
PENTICTON – Ziyat Paigin answers to Z, but he’s not the real Z.
“I am Ziyat Paigin, not Zdeno Chara,” recoiled the 22-year-old, six-foot-six, 210-pound defenceman, who grew up in Russia with Oilers winger Anton Slepyshev and looks like a steal after being the third-last name called at the 2015 NHL Draft in south Florida, No. 209.
Paigin is an engaging, smiling antithesis of another large Russian defenceman Nikita Tryamkin, who played with the Vancouver Canucks for parts o
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