Prospect Info: [2024 - 5th] Ivan Motherbleeping Demidov (RW), SKA St. Petersburg (MHL)

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And our kid playing vs men in Russia

It's going *too* well lol..

It's fun being in training camp mindset mode but everytime this thread gets bumped it always puts a smile on my face lol 'oh yeah, Demi exists :D'

Quentin Miller was sacrificed to the injury gods.
 
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Rapala

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Yellow is 4th line.

Which is still bad.

We might see him sooner rather than later.
I can't imagine anyone I've seen who will be able to make that third line better.
The problem with the line to begins with was Kuznetsov's lack of desire and Rendulic's lack of hockey IQ.
I'm assuming he'll get fewer minutes but he may actually do better as the go to on that 4th line.
 
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WeThreeKings

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I can't imagine anyone I've seen who will be able to make that third line better.
The problem with the line to begin with was Kuznetsov's lack of desire and Rendulic's lack of hockey IQ.
I'm assuming he'll get fewer minutes but he may actually do better as the go to on that 4th line.

Hard to do that with 6 minutes tho
 

Kshahdoo

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Hard to do that with 6 minutes tho

I'm as big Demidov's fan as anybody and not since the last draft but since the kid was 15. But let's be honest, he had chances to score. And not one or even two.

Look at Michkov, he played for SKA one game last season and exactly 6 min. Of course he didn't score. But as soon as they loaned him to Sochi he started to score. He was 4+5 after 8 games. If Demidov scored at least one goal on those chances he had I doubd even Rotenberg would have dared to bench him.
 
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WeThreeKings

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I'm as big Demidov's fan as anybody and not since the last draft but since the kid was 15. But let's be honest, he had chances to score. And not one or even two.

Look at Michkov, he played for SKA one game last season and exactly 6 min. Of course he didn't score. But as soon as they loaned him to Sochi he started to score. He was 4+5 after 8 games. If Demidov scored at least one goal on those chances he had I doubd even Rotenberg would have dared to bench him.

Yeah he did and Randulic had 0 chances to score and is still getting loads of ice time. Demidov is getting chances and creating. That means things will fall.

Rotenberg was gonna bench him regardless. He wasn't warranted being benched in that 3rd.
 

Kshahdoo

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Yeah he did and Randulic had 0 chances to score and is still getting loads of ice time. Demidov is getting chances and creating. That means things will fall.

Rotenberg was gonna bench him regardless. He wasn't warranted being benched in that 3rd.

Rendulic scored his goal when he had a chance, and Kuznetsov scored. And Demidov has 1 casual assist on PP in 3 games.

Yeah, people say he looked good, but in Russia it doesn't work this way. Here you'd better look bad and score than look good and don't score.

When your team has lost 2 games out of 3 and you don't have a lot of goals and points nobody gives a damn for your age and your skill. Especially if your team is SKA.

Actually I expected this situation and said it would be better for him to play in the VHL with a lot of TOI and no pressure. On SKA he will have to earn his playing time, and the only way to earn it is to score goals or helpers. Otherwise he'll be warming the bench...
 

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