Last year during the Stanley Cup Final, I was driving home through West Englewood, when I saw a black man wearing an Artemi Panarin Blackhawks sweater. I thought that was pretty cool.
When the news of Panarin’s recently unearthed comment about black women got out, I thought of that mystery fan.
Panarin, the team’s star winger, may have gotten himself into a predicament that he can’t easily deke his way out of.
Back in 2012 during a segment on Russian TV called “Get To Know A Player,” a young Panarin, who was 20 or 21 at the time was asked, “What is something you could never do”, and he replied, “Have sex with a black woman.