"Fun notification just received from the Caps:," Tweeted USA Today hockey writer Kevin Allen earlier this week. "Simeon Varlamov now wants his first name spelled 'Semyon.'" (End of message)
At first blush, the thought came to mind that Varlamov might want the name change to hide from the American ladies he offended in an interview with Ok! Magazine -- an interview in which, according to japersrink, he was quoted as saying, "It's difficult to look at a lot of the local women. You get the feeling that (they) just don't take care of themselves! There are an awful lot of heavyset ones. But Russian girls have nice trim figures. I couldn't imagine myself being with an American girl."
But it seems that Semyon, formerly known in America as Simeon, indeed wanted the spelling change prior to the Ok! interview since there was an additional video of Varlamov with his Russian girlfriend -- carrying the printed words, "Semyon Varlamov and Girlfriend Dasha."
Anyway, at his tender age of 21, perhaps the American ladies can cut Varlamov some slack and consider him misguided in his judgment of local ladies. Hopefully he will learn that there are many wonderful American girls.
No matter -- the topic today is Varlamov's name. It is now "Semyon" -- no longer Simeon.
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