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BiPolar Caps
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What's happening? Use to be when they described someone as having a great personality, it was an immediate red flag regarding their appearance/looks. Now not having a great personality is detrimental. 
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Looking through the Capitals NHL Draft history, that 2012 draft was pretty good for the Capitals.
11 Forsberg
16 Wilson
77 Chandler Stephenson
Connor Carrick in the 5th round and Djoos in the 7th round
11 Forsberg
16 Wilson
77 Chandler Stephenson
Connor Carrick in the 5th round and Djoos in the 7th round
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It was on a popular Russian podcast. Nikolishin was dressed in a Capitals polo and said that Michkov's attitude towards 'teammates, coaches, management and fans' was very disrespectful, and that he could 'easily' fall out of the top 10.
Idk. Maybe. Who knows? If Michkov falls even out of the top 5, he will still be the BPA by a mile, and he'll be 3 years older (and likely a lot more mature) when his SKA contract is over.
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What's happening? Use to be when they described someone as having a great personality, it was an immediate red flag regarding their appearance/looks. Now not having a great personality is detrimental.
This isn’t the dating scene lol! This dude is indeed a head scratcher….
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Seems pretty damning to be wearing team gear and dropping this kind of negative info on a prospect to the public. Very interesting….
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Or it's Russian disinformation, that could benefit the Caps.
Corby78
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Yeah a lot of dudes in the second and third tier. All with positives and negatives. I’ve changee my draft board multiple times the last two months
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Seems too niche to be an op. What NHL teams are listening to Russian podcasts?
If this stuff is true you wonder how easily he'll even manage to integrate himself into the SKA team. They loaned him out last season. Will he endear himself all-around to earn trust and a meaningful role? Or will there be friction and another loan? Too much adding up here creating uncertainty. Three years of lack of team control where you never know how well he'll be utilized for his development. Whoever takes him will have done their homework and then some. It seems likely he'll interview with teams in Nashville the week of the draft and it may be his last chance to sell himself.
If this stuff is true you wonder how easily he'll even manage to integrate himself into the SKA team. They loaned him out last season. Will he endear himself all-around to earn trust and a meaningful role? Or will there be friction and another loan? Too much adding up here creating uncertainty. Three years of lack of team control where you never know how well he'll be utilized for his development. Whoever takes him will have done their homework and then some. It seems likely he'll interview with teams in Nashville the week of the draft and it may be his last chance to sell himself.
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GMBM approved him going out and saying this to potentially lower Michkov's value and ensure the slide down to 8!
Way to go Brian!
Way to go Brian!
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Corby78
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Has he thrown a wheelchair down some stairs yet?
CapitalsCupReality
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I almost jokingly posted that, but it only harms the player by inducing a slide, so if you’re doing that, it better be off the record. Unless Michi was in on it of course and wanted to get to us….Or it's Russian disinformation, that could benefit the Caps.
Absolutely, and many can’t do that artfully, and flame out.
Or it's Russian disinformation, that could benefit the Caps.
This. Its exactly the thing a scout would say when he wants a prospect to drop from say, 3, to say, 8. Keep it up Niko. Make sure to mention that you saw him kick a puppy or two.
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Mock 2023 NHL Draft: Bedard, Fantilli, Carlsson, Smith consensus top 4 | NHL.com
NHL.com experts divided beginning with Canadiens at No. 5 between Michkov, Leonard
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Kimelman -- David Reinbacher, D, Kloten (SUI): The Capitals have done well with adding young forwards at the top of the draft the past few seasons, with Connor McMichael (2019, No. 25) and Hendrix Lapierre (2020, No. 22) looking like they're ready for more. Now would be a good time to address the defense, and Reinbacher (6-2, 185) is the best defenseman prospect available. The Austria-born right-shot defenseman didn't look out of place playing in the top professional league in Switzerland with 22 points (three goals, 19 assists) in 46 games, and scouts have compared him to Red Wings defenseman Moritz Seider.
Morreale -- Dalibor Dvorsky, C, AIK (SWE-2): Dvorsky (6-1, 201) is a good skater, great with the puck on his stick, and has an ability to maintain possession with good vision. He can win battles in the corner and shows great skill in tight spaces; he led fourth-place Slovakia with 13 points (eight goals, five assists) in seven games at the U-18 Worlds.
Not that you needed more haunting prospects, but I recall a fan on an old board saying he was watching AV closely in Caps warmups and he displayed puck skills like no one he'd ever seen, far more puck nimble than any other players on the ice. It translated to absolute bupkis in games though and he was an epic bust - 4 OA if I'm not mistaken? 3 NHL games
I saw the video recently posted of Michkov stick handling like a wizard and my first thought was "Looks like AV".
Enjoy that thought.
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Volchkov was highly touted after a couple seasons of torching children and a disastrous WJC. Michkov is already a much more accomplished professional player and is on a completely different planet as a prospect. Not sure what they have in common aside from good stickhandling skills don't let fear obscure your judgement!
don't let fear obscure your judgement!
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I will say, there might be something to a guy who's been one of the chosen one's for his whole developmental age.
I still want him because I always think you gamble on skill, but I can see why dudes who's paycheck is predicated on him working out might hesitate.
Volchkov was highly touted after a couple seasons of torching children and a disastrous WJC. Michkov is already a much more accomplished professional player and is on a completely different planet as a prospect. Not sure what they have in common aside from good stickhandling skills
Fear obscures good judgement all the time, everywhere.
He could turn out to be a terrific player capable of pouring in points, but his teammates grow sick of him easily and he bounces around multiple times, despite his talent. That's always a possibility with talented assholes. Not saying his is a complete asshole but if Niko's words are to be valued, maybe there is something there? If its true, then its really hard to tell if its just youth, or his DNA which doesn't change.
Jags
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100%. You can be the alpha hockey hero your whole life at every level and have a swagger that irks people. Then you end up a rookie in a locker room with Ovechkin and that shit don't fly anymore. And that is your moment. That's when your character kicks in and everyone around you finds out who you really are. How you react from there is 100% of the story.
I don't give a shit if an 18-year-old star athlete has an ego problem. Most people would succumb to at least some of that in the same situation. I care about how he responds from there. Maybe you don't alter course at all and you're a Vrana or Roenick or Avery with all the talent but struggle to be part of a team or even irritate or disrupt the team.
And maybe you get humbled, course correct, and fit right in. And the dipshit can find that humility later on. Happens all the time. Vrana's story is far from over, for instance.
It's harder with kids now because this generation has come to think of "adulting" as a choice, something to be snickered at or looked down upon. Anyway, this doesn't bother me. If we want to be a championship organization, then we need to have the type of culture that helps young guys through that stuff. Sometimes the carrot, sometimes the stick.
Stick first though.
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Too late!Volchkov was highly touted after a couple seasons of torching children and a disastrous WJC. Michkov is already a much more accomplished professional player and is on a completely different planet as a prospect. Not sure what they have in common aside from good stickhandling skills
This feels like it is potential smoke. So don't think it helps the Caps that Niko is wearing a caps shirt.
Will never get back the time spending time checking out every Barrie game box score after they drafted Bustkov. Even that number is ass (39).
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Lol….all the #39s in Caps history….Cote and Ciccone, Boomer….wow…..the memories….Mantha never had a chance.
| Robbie Moore 1983 |
| Kent Carlson 1989 |
| Alain Côté 1990 |
| Tyler Larter 1990 |
| Alfie Turcotte 1990 |
| Jim Hrivnak 1991-1993 |
| Enrico Ciccone 1994-1999 |
| Steve Poapst 1999 |
| Alexandre Volchkov 2000 |
| Patrick Boileau 2002 |
| Josef Boumedienne 2003 |
| Graham Mink 2004-2006 |
| Alexandre Giroux 2007 |
| David Steckel 2008-2011 |
| Alex Chiasson 2018 |
| Anthony Mantha 2021-2023 |
