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

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Zine said:
That doesn't pass the smell test because his agent fully admitted Michkov wouldn't play for certain teams.
He would not have publicly said as such if his objective was to make Michkov look squeaky clean at all costs.
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The information was already out there so completely denying it isn't really possible/believable. So it's more a question of downplaying it, so you say Arizona a team that no longer exists and most people would agree/understand in not wanting to play there and you highlight a team like Anaheim as a place you would go and sure it's not squeaky clean which was impossible but it's still biased PR to make him look better.

Anyways like you said earlier we can get back to the Demidov talk because he's going to be special.
 
Do we know what color sheets he slept in last night?
Surely he doesn't get put on the 1st line again after the disappointing performance last game.
 
Sorinth said:
The information was already out there so completely denying it isn't really possible/believable. So it's more a question of downplaying it, so you say Arizona a team that no longer exists and most people would agree/understand in not wanting to play there and you highlight a team like Anaheim as a place you would go and sure it's not squeaky clean which was impossible but it's still biased PR to make him look better.

Anyways like you said earlier we can get back to the Demidov talk because he's going to be special.
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No. The info was not already out, certainly not for Washington.
 
the valiant effort said:
SMUGGLE HIM OUT. NOW
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Oh we're back to the movie theories?:

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Guy Larose said:
One was from Friedman and there are others
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That is nothing new and is not saying in any way that he would not have went somewhere else if another team drafted him. Friedman does not know anything more than anyone else on this topic and you can not make the leap of faith from media speculation to empirical evidence based on these opinion articles/quotes.

Show me an article where Michkov/his agent/rival GM's explicitly say that Michkov would refuse to play anywhere other than Philly......it doesn't appear to exist and nobody has been able to prove otherwise.

The default can not be that an extraordinary claim is true without evidence. The only evidence we have is that Michkov's camp met with Philly prior to the draft and the rest is bordering on tin foil hat theories.

The knowledge of such a meeting may have scared some teams off as there were already concerns about him having a shady entourage and Michkov himself being selfish. Those concerns may or may not prove to have been valid, only time will tell but until evidence that other GM's were explicitly told not to draft him this whole narrative is a house of cards built on conjecture and should be treated as such until there is concrete evidence to think otherwise.

Personally, I wanted Dvorsky when our time to pick came up and that still looks like a solid pick but I could live with Reinbacher due to a glaring organizational need and the positional scarcity of that need.

Ultimately, if Reinbacher develops well and Demidov is who we think he is we will be better off as still have concerns about Michkov whereas Demidov and Reinbacher are more complete players with no question marks about their attitudes and putting themselves above the team and their teammates.
 
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Grate n Colorful Oz said:
Going for that record

Now needs 11 points in his next 7 games to tie Michkov's season, and 12 in his next 9 to tie Kaprisov in rookie u20 ppg.
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I've said it before but,
In my eyes, he has already surpassed the Michkov vacation KHL season

But the Kaprizov KHL stuff is insane, what a player, making 9M now and free agent at next* season's end.. someone's getting paaaaaaiiiiiiiiiddddd
 
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Redux91 said:
I've said it before but,
In my eyes, he has already surpassed the Michkov vacation KHL season

But the Kaprizov KHL stuff is insane, what a player, making 9M now and free agent at season's end.. someone's getting paaaaaaiiiiiiiiiddddd
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Kaprizov is a ufa and at the end of next season
 
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26Mats said:
I don't think we passed on Michkov because he wanted to go to Philly.
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We passed on Michkov because he didn't want to be a Canadiens and there was a great prospect at a position of need with rare qualities to be picked instead.

It all worked out, but even when the Habs are doing good, people can't help but harp on the one thing they can find to be mad about.
 
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26Mats said:
Which source tells you he didn't want to be a Canadien? This is the first I'm hearing of this - perhaps because I haven't been following the media recently.

All I've heard in the past was they chose Michkov over Reinbacher because they thought he was the better prospect. That's certainly what the scouts in the Habs post draft video said. At one point Gorton said are you unanimous for Reinbacher over Michkov (or un-named talent that you can only get by over spending in free agency if you don't draft). And the scouts said yes.
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Friedman.
 
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