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2017 NHL Draft: Russian Prospects

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Caesar, one guy had not seen all season was TBs pick from last year - Sosunov. Why he was not invited to the summer tourny last month?
 
malkinfan said:
Caesar, one guy had not seen all season was TBs pick from last year - Sosunov. Why he was not invited to the summer tourny last month?
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I'd say because so far it doesn't look like he got anything aside from the size.
 
Caser said:
I'd say because so far it doesn't look like he got anything aside from the size.
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Yeah he was drafted hoping his tools would end up matching his frame. Right type of guy to pick that late - low risk, potentially huge reward.
 
Ustimenko was better than Zhukov at the U18s, in fact he made no real mistakes. Thought he should have been rated higher than he was, but to be one of the top goalies taken, wow. Scouting agencies dropped the ball on that one. Another guy from SKA system
 
Samorukov to Oilers in the 3rd... finally something that more or less makes sense. :D
 
Great list! Excellent resource for the less informed, like myself haha.

Can you briefly expand on your thoughts of Volkov and Lipanov? Do either of them have top-6 or even top line upside?

Especially Volkov, I have been able to find virtually nothing about him. Do you know of any reason why Yzerman may have picked him so early?
 
Everblades13 said:
Great list! Excellent resource for the less informed, like myself haha.

Can you briefly expand on your thoughts of Volkov and Lipanov? Do either of them have top-6 or even top line upside?

Especially Volkov, I have been able to find virtually nothing about him. Do you know of any reason why Yzerman may have picked him so early?
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Lipanov has a second line center written all over him, Volkov's upside so far looked more of a middle-six guy. No idea why Yzerman went so early, but probably because he liked his dynamic two-way game: back at the Series, you could see him fighting for the puck in the D zone and just a moment later he was already making trouble in the offensive zone.
 
Caser said:
Lipanov has a second line center written all over him, Volkov's upside so far looked more of a middle-six guy. No idea why Yzerman went so early, but probably because he liked his dynamic two-way game: back at the Series, you could see him fighting for the puck in the D zone and just a moment later he was already making trouble in the offensive zone.
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Just pretend we picked Lipanov in the 2nd and Volkov in the 3rd, and everyone's happy.
 
Caser said:
Lipanov has a second line center written all over him, Volkov's upside so far looked more of a middle-six guy. No idea why Yzerman went so early, but probably because he liked his dynamic two-way game: back at the Series, you could see him fighting for the puck in the D zone and just a moment later he was already making trouble in the offensive zone.
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Awesome thanks so much.
 
10 players taken so far. Could be a post lockout record this year.
 
Caser said:
Vladislav Kara is a major surprise. :amazed: Shvyryov - not so much.
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Def interested in hearing more about Shvryov on the Avs board. Thanks for having this thread as a resource, big help! Where is he going to play next year? NA a possibility?
 
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