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

[G0bias]

So Rotenberg back to benching him in the 3rd and OT, despite producing with no ice.

Time for Jeff to send another message.

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

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What jersey color will he be wearing at practice tomorrow?

 

[SwiftyHab]

What jersey color will he be wearing at practice tomorrow?

id love to actually be able to spin that wheel on a website

 

[Habs]

Rotenberg follows the D.E.N.N.I.S. system

There are way too many people here that don't understand the implications!

 

[Thomas Sowell]

The Swiss decided not to honour KHL contracts.

https://x.com/i/web/status/1846941918422241772

They don't really have to since the KHL is not part of the IIHF.

This follows Ivan Ryabkin who is under contract with Dynamo Moscow but will join the Muskegon Lumberjacks of the USHL, simply not honouring his KHL deal.

NHL, your move.

Good. f*** the KHL

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

What jersey color will he be wearing at practice tomorrow?

Hahaha amazing

 

[WeThreeKings]

There are way too many people here that don't understand the implications!

Are you going to hurt these players?

 

[Bourdon101]

Mistake? They had no choice in the matter.

Philadelphia proved that's wrong.

 

[Kennerback]

The good news that SKA are using the carrot and the stick method to get Demidov to sign is that we now know Rottenberg is not completely devoid of intelligence. He actually has a reason to play him only 4 minutes a game. So maybe a deal will be possible if he realizes Demidov won't sign.

There should be a moment when it will be worth it for SKA to take a cash payment for Demidov. It could be in 3 months, 4 months or later. And I assume if they don't take the money it's because they want to use him in the playoffs, which is fine too.

 

[Guy Larose]

Philadelphia proved that's wrong.

We have no idea what happened in that case, so no.

 

[montreal]

Not to stir things up but with the reports about SKA offering him a contract and him refusing, if you look at his TOI in the 1st 9 games he played between 10:02 and 16:26, with only 3 games under 13;36, at the time he was on pace to be near the KHL All Time U-20 points record as Kaprisov has the record and he did it with a .86 ppg. Demidov was at a .8 ppg.

Not only did they then cut his TOI to between a low of 3:17 to 13:49 in 8 games but only 2 of them have been over 7:32. At this time they also stopped using him on the PP. He went from an ave PP TOI of under 2 mins to now he's at 0:38 ave PP TOI in 17 games and during 5 on 3 he's still at 0:00 despite being one of the teams highest goal scorers.

Certainly looks bad that he was playing great and producing despite not getting a ton of PP time and 3rd line TOI. Then they try to re-sign him, he says no and his TOI gets cut badly and his PP TOI is almost nil.