Wow, thanks to Nikita, Canucks team is popular in Russia now. There is large article posted last night describing day of regular NHL fan and the Canucks fan is taken as an example: http://www.championat.com/hockey/article-243060-go-canucks-odin-den-iz-zhizni-bolelshhika-nkhl.html This is written in Russian obviously but pictures look so familiar
Interesting that for months I was translating and posting here some articles from Russian media about Tryamkin. Now it is quite opposite - Russian media is translating and posting info from the Vancouver sources every day. And I did not know that Nikita was so popular in Russia.
Tryamkin moved from one young inexperienced team to another young inexperienced team, he should feel like home in Vancouver
It was actually even more impressive:
Vancouver Canucks @VanCanucks Mar 10
Intrigued... Tryamkin skated for an hour this morning after getting just 45 mins of sleep after arriving in Van.
Just found on Instagram that it takes him 32 hours to get here:
nikita_tryamkin88Vancouver, British...
nikita_tryamkin88На месте✈️✈️✈️32 часа в пути прошли)))
Not sure why unless he took train from Yekaterinburg to Moscow instead of flight...
Just notice in the picture and then found in Twitter this:
Jon Abbott @HockeyAbbs 6h6 hours ago
Even Tryamkin's skate laces are big...the loops flop over his skates and almost touch the ice #Canucks #TSN1040
Why is everyone missing the last part of the Henrik's notice?
Vancouver Canucks @VanCanucks Mar 10
Henrik Sedin, although excited about Tryamkin, warns about the hype. "Adjustment will take time, he's not Chris Pronger - hopefully someday"
Thank you. This is my pleasure actually to share some historical knowledge with you, ladies and gentlemen!
Back to Tryamkin. I completely agree with your post: He seems like the type of guy that would give everything for his team. That is why the Avto fans and teammates love him.
I just think that this is important to call the player names right way. Interesting fact: original surname of our Burnaby Joe Sakic is Šakić (Croatian origin) and it is pronounced Sha-kich. Fortunately Lucic (Lju-chich) is pronounced correctly so things change... BTW Horvat in Russian and some other Eastern European languages means Croatian.
This is interesting topic. Tryamka is originated from ancient Greek first name Trofim ( Trophime in French, Trofimo in Spanish and Italian). In the Middle Age Russia only noble people might have full name and ordinary people carried those "little" additions at the name end. Eventually a son of some Tryamka got surname of Tryamkin and became founder of the Tryamkins family.
Regarding two syllables, as a common rule stress is mostly on the first one for pure Russian surnames like Tryamkin with few exemptions like kol'TSOV. For Ukrainian surnames it is mostly on the second syllable like pe-DAN. Bure is pronounced bu-RE because it is of German origin.
It depends of how last name was created, Russian language is historically very complicated in that regard. And it is FE-do-rv (last O is silent) At the same time it is chu-BA-rov, mo-GYL-ny...
SVECH-ni-kv --- ni-CHUSH-kin...
Irfaan Gaffar @sportsnetirf 6h6 hours ago
After careful discussion with Shorty, @HockeyAbbs @DTSN1040 and of course @NoJoryous I think #Agent88 is Tryamkin's nickname. #Canucks
His nickname is "tryama88" - Nikita uses it for Instagram, Facebook and VKontakte (Russian version of Facebook).