GDT: 2023 Upper Deck NHL Draft: 1st Round, June 28, 7 p.m. et | ESPN, SN, TVAS: Nashville, TN

[HabbyGuy]

NHL insiders: really hard to get access to Michkov

Habs fans: hold my beer while I grab my mini-hockey stick

That's hilarious!

 

[BenchBrawl]

Followed by: did he skip leg days?

I always found muscles mostly irrelevant. If you need muscles to gain balance, you're only compensating suboptimal skeletal posture. This is the major reason why I think, for example, the greats of the past would still be better than 99% players of today, because they got lucky to have exactly the right frame/natural posture to give them maximal hockey efficiency, in the sense of weight transfer, balance, mobility, being able to go to the extreme ranges of their moves to do fakes and dekes, without losing their center. Mario Lemieux was a great example, he would go very far into his fakes without losing his core balance, people would buy it at those extremes, and he would just revert. They couldn't revert back so they were toast and he dangled them.

Another example is Doug Harvey's ungodly low center of gravity, as when he for example battled a forecheck in the corners of the defensive zone. His balance was so absolute, that no nutrition, training, or anything else than being born with exactly the right musculoskeletal frame could compete with that.

Guy Lafleur is another, where the curve of his natural spine was literally made to make him float over the ice giving him effortless speed and always be "loaded" with his weight transfer, which gave him power in his shot and with mobility to boot, so he could slap shot on the fly.

people don't talk about this enough, I wish it was more studied. There might even be some predictive value in just (somehow) measuring someone's posture, for prospects say.

 

[River Meadow]

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Michkov looks 5ft11 at least judging by this............

 

[Schooner Guy]

Just for shits and giggles I put some money down on Dvorsky going at #5.

 

[Kennerback]

Michkov looks 5ft11 at least judging by this............

Does that make him a Power Forward?

 

[Canadienna]

Hughes met MM and is on record as being impressed.

Michkov only did photo ops with TVA sports and the boys from HabsTV.

He also went to the mister FRENCH restaurant and posted it online.

His necktie is white red and blue.

Oh. My. God.

 

[Runner77]

I always found muscles mostly irrelevant.

Twas tongue in cheek. Should have added an emoji.

Just a comebacker to our usual forum obsession with certain physical attributes.

 

[HabbyGuy]

Does that make him a Power Forward?

Leonard 2.0

 

[River Meadow]

The immense urgency to not f___ up this pick, is now sky-high after trading away 31st and 37th.

 

[BenchBrawl]

Twas tongue in cheek. Should have added an emoji.

Just a comebacker to our usual forum obsession with certain physical attributes.

I know, just decided to springboard off of it. I really think the gym bros have it all wrong. Strength, size, mobility, and where they come from.

 

[HabbyGuy]

The immense urgency to not f___ up this pick, is now sky-high after trading away 31st and 37th.

The urgency was already sky high. It was always a very important pick.

I personally don't think the trading of these other picks adds any logs to the fire.

Adding Newhook should be seen as a positive imo.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

 

[McGuires Corndog]

Hughes met MM and is on record as being impressed.

Michkov only did photo ops with TVA sports and the boys from HabsTV.

He also went to the mister FRENCH restaurant and posted it online.

His necktie is white red and blue.

Have his gloves been spotted at the Bell Centre yet

 

[Lafleurs Guy]

The immense urgency to not f___ up this pick, is now sky-high after trading away 31st and 37th.

I don’t see how these are related. We were never going to draft a superstar with the 31st pick.

 

[HabbyGuy]

Hilarious post! But seriously though. How sad is this???

Just make the damn pick!

 

[Deebs]

I don’t see how these are related. We were never going to draft a superstar with the 31st pick.

Absolutely. It wasn't even likely we would be drafting an everyday NHL'er at that spot, let alone a star player.

 

[Kennerback]

 

[BenchBrawl]

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I don't know why, but I have a deep affection for Kent Hugues. I just completely trust his intelligence, on an immediate phrenological level. I know he's a shark, in my gut. Doesn't mean I will go along with the program on all counts though. I'm suspicious of his ties to the US system, for example. Could lead him astray from information overload.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

 

[HabbyGuy]

But the risks!!??? Why would the flyers do this?? Ugh... Only in Montreal is this even a question, so annoying.

It's such a no brainer.

 

[BenchBrawl]

What is Daniel Brière to you? To me, he's CLUTCH. He knows the kill. He has it, the killer instinct. Many told him he was too small, yet he had a great career in the NHL. And look at who he's aiming.

Michkov.

Thankfully for us, we pick before the Flyers.

 

[larek]

Like you, I’m old enough to have seen Richer’s career. I remember Serge Savard as DG complaining to media that it’s almost impossible to get elite players because of the draft system that was not that old at the time.

We’ve never had a crack at a player like this in 50 years. And they might pass? . If they’re dumb it’s better to be really really dumb. I’ll be like T.O fans having a blast during the Ballard years.

And Richer was not 6.4 --220
He was like 6ft 200

 

[ViD]

During the 2019-2020 Youth Olympics, Michkov absolutely tore up the competition carrying Russia to the gold medal and scoring 14 points in 4 games (9+5).

Adam Fantilli ? 3 points in 4 games.

 

[BenchBrawl]

M.I.C.H.K.O.V.

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

We should be banning tweets for draft pick leak in advance so Leroux can f*** off so we can all punch a wall when we pick the worst of the gang