salbutera
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Prospect Info: [2024 - 5th] Ivan Motherbleeping Demidov (RW), SKA St. Petersburg (MHL)
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Kaprizov is more than just an exciting player to watch. He has made the playoffs 3 times in 4 years playing for a mediocre team. He played lot of games with Hartman and made Hartman look like a legit 1st liner.
Adam Michaels
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Nice, I have something else in common with Slafkovsky. Besides being good looking
KevSkillz4
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This guy is like Slaf when he talking. Both will be able to be gamebreaker for Habs with all theirs qualities. I see in him a hard worker, great attitude... exactly like Slaf!
I hope he will be able to play on a line with Kuznetsov or PP, they are going to be lethal together!!
OldCraig71
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Does anyone ever think about how perfectly the whole draft thing played out for us? Why would other teams pass on potentially getting the best player of the draft? Then we have one of the biggest pop stars of the last 25 years come up on stage and announce his name. It seems a little too perfect to be considered coincidental.
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Pompeius Magnus
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You used to hear the same thing about Caufield, hockey really is his entire life, he'd spend all day at the arena if you'd let him. It's a pretty good trait to have in a pro player, that's for sure !
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Yes, it's almost making all those years of suffering, worthwhile. Sadly, the pessimist in me is just waiting for the hammer to fall lol
It certainly is an amazing thing to hear. I will caution though.....Most kids in their teens who are playing for a spot in the NHL....and some who never have a hope in hell, should be, and are training like this.
The key is.....they keep that work ethic up, once they make that show.....and once they sign that big contract. The desire to get better has to be there for ever. It is what Crosby has in spades. No matter how good you get....you have a desire to get better and that competitive drive to be the best. I hope Slaf keeps that work ethic.
I hope Demidov keeps it.
OldCraig71
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There won't be any hammer, our bad times are behind us, and the powers that be are positioning us to be a force in the league for the next 10 years. Florida, Tampa, and Boston will all be declining when we are coming into form. I mean, we are led to believe that it's all by chance but I believe there are no flukes and that things have a certain order.
I did just have a coffee and a Lions Mane supplement and am currently listening to Epic powerful motivation music from YT so it might just be that lol. I'm not the deepest most logical poster here, most of it is just how I feel on a given day lol.
Kennerback
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Habs10Habs, I can tell from your 2006 date that you’ve been following Habs prospects forever. You can trust your own eyes. There’s never been film like this on anyone else we ever drafted.
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Thank you.
I know you're right. I guess I'm just in a hurry for him to get here. I'm so looking forward to seeing him play live.
Chicago went with the rare top rated RHD who has been rated most of the season above Demidov.
Anahiem do not draft Russians (they drafted 2 in the last 10 years, at round 7 and 5)
Columbus took a big center over a (slighty smaller) winger.
Had Anahiem taken the big center, Columbus was taking Demidov. And I wonder how much the rumors of the Habs being high on Sennecke caused Anahiem to pick him. They apparently didn't even interview him...
Gaylord Q Tinkledink
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Chicago took a potential number 1 RHD with size, which is a rare thing.
Anaheim took a player who has tremendous skill himself and he'd a big boi.
Columbus took a big boi, goal scoring centre with size.
If a team took Iginla before him, or pretty much anyone drafted after Demidov before Demidov I could see it, but not really here.
salbutera
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Jagr was the ultimate, the security guards would turn on the lights after midnight when he returned to the are to get a couple hours of workout on the ice… this after having just finished his game a few hours prior…
Beer and Chips
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So you're saying that bad man "Bergevin" can no longer hurt me?
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Habs Halifax
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Demidov and Hage turned our forward pool around. It was impressive on how that played out in our favor. I think we got two gems
Kennerback
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Devils advocate. There’s an inherent risk in drafting a D at 2OA if it’s not a sure fire superstar. Sennecke came from far down and peaked at the right time. A bit of a mystery. I don’t want to criticize Lidstrom too much because a big C PF is a rare find, but to leave elite skill like Demidov on the table there is not my cup of tea.
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OldCraig71
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I wouldn't pass on a player that could potentially be a 100-point player for a defenseman but that's just me. It just seems to have worked out perfectly and life isn't usually that way.
We may have just drafted two star players in one round, seems weird for the Habs to have such good fortune.
OldCraig71
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He's in a far away western place helping to sink another franchise, we don't have to worry about him anymore. One time I posted that Bergevin would outlive all of us lol.
