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

[BLONG7]

Kaprizov had 27 points in 53 games in the KHL at 18, .5 point per game, less then Demidov.

Is there any way the Habs can rescue this kid?? Buyout the contract, and bring him over??
He has proven he can play with those guys, and yet the coach says no TOI for him..........terrible.

Will this effect his development??

 

[Kennerback]

Is there any way the Habs can rescue this kid?? Buyout the contract, and bring him over??
He has proven he can play with those guys, and yet the coach says no TOI for him..........terrible.

Will this effect his development??

It might be frustrating but I don’t think it affects his development.

 

[Estimated_Prophet]

Is there any way the Habs can rescue this kid?? Buyout the contract, and bring him over??
He has proven he can play with those guys, and yet the coach says no TOI for him..........terrible.

Will this effect his development??

There is no risk to his development here........we knew this season would be a s***show in this Mickey Mouse league but he is practising with talented players and will be ready to go next season. He is much better off going through this then he would be if he was simply dominating scrubs in the MHL and not learning the difference between pro tactics and junior tactics.

I have said this before but most fans treat the accrual of points as the accrual of xp points in a video game and make a linear correlation between points and development......this is a false equivalency and while these numbers can often coincide and be construed as development, they are not necessarily evidence of development.

 

[Boxscore]

Demidov will be just fine. Michkov had ups and downs last year there. Demi will arrive and be an instant star like Matvei.

 

[Habs]

The hawks are going to regret pulling a ‘Kent Hughes’ and drafting a dman instead of a winger like Demidov for Bedard.

 

[Hacketts]

Something to watch till Sat.

 

[HuGort]

Michkov outscoring Bedard, Carlsson, Fantilli, Smith, I had Demidov ahead of Michkov.

 

[417]

There is no risk to his development here........we knew this season would be a s***show in this Mickey Mouse league but he is practising with talented players and will be ready to go next season. He is much better off going through this then he would be if he was simply dominating scrubs in the MHL and not learning the difference between pro tactics and junior tactics.

I have said this before but most fans treat the accrual of points as the accrual of xp points in a video game and make a linear correlation between points and development......this is a false equivalency and while these numbers can often coincide and be construed as development, they are not necessarily evidence of development.

Hang this post up in the Louvre

 

[Artaud]

There is no risk to his development here........we knew this season would be a s***show in this Mickey Mouse league but he is practising with talented players and will be ready to go next season. He is much better off going through this then he would be if he was simply dominating scrubs in the MHL and not learning the difference between pro tactics and junior tactics.

I have said this before but most fans treat the accrual of points as the accrual of xp points in a video game and make a linear correlation between points and development......this is a false equivalency and while these numbers can often coincide and be construed as development, they are not necessarily evidence of development.

Eloquent analogy, but the poster's argument was worried about time on ice rather than points. Time on ice is literal experience and I do believe it's hard to develop as a player watching the game from the bench. From that perspective, it would obviously have been best to kidnap Demidov back to Brossard or Laval. Playing in the big show, even with the minutes he now plays in the KHL, would have allowed him to « practise » with even more talented players, as you say.

I'm not sure what Brière sacrificed to the oligarchs of the KHL to get Michkov out of there, and maybe the lamb in question just wasn't on the table for this organisation, but in hindsight, it would have definitely helped.