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

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

Roman Rottenbitch

Rottenturd

 

[Kennerback]

 

[salbutera]

 

[HabzSauce]

Such a Canadiens thing to have the best prospect not in the NHL and he can't play in the WJC because of Putin's senseless murdering of Ukrainians.. and he doesn't get to play the ice time and opportunites he should in the KHL because Putin's little butt buddy is gifted the team to coach as a pet project to keep him busy.

Thank God Demidov is that good he will be a superstar regardless of the BS he has to put up with this year

 

[schwang26]

I wonder if he’ll get any games with the Habs near the end of this season. The Russians finish earlier but I guess it depends on their playoffs.

 

[Kennerback]

I knew he was in good hands:

“Roman Rotenberg talks with me to help me perform better”
-Demidov

 

[Riggins]

Such a Canadiens thing to have the best prospect not in the NHL and he can't play in the WJC because of Putin's senseless murdering of Ukrainians.. and he doesn't get to play the ice time and opportunites he should in the KHL because Putin's little butt buddy is gifted the team to coach as a pet project to keep him busy.

At least we know how good Demidov is and we'll get him over next year. Just imagine if we had Cayden Lindstrom instead. The three top picks of the rebuild would be Slaf struggling in the NHL and Reinbacher and Lindstrom injured all year. This board would be in complete shambles.

 

[Kennerback]

At least we know how good Demidov is and we'll get him over next year. Just imagine if we had Cayden Lindstrom instead. The three top picks of the rebuild would be Slaf struggling in the NHL and Reinbacher and Lindstrom injured all year. This board would be in complete shambles.

Taking Lindstrom over Demidov would have been the last straw if both were available.

 

[GHJimmy]

I wonder if he’ll get any games with the Habs near the end of this season. The Russians finish earlier but I guess it depends on their playoffs.no

No, his contract would say otherwise

 

[overlords]

Taking Lindstrom over Demidov would have been the last straw if both were available.

Tij is also out for the year and it seemed we were pretty high on him, too.

 

[Kennerback]

From this summer. Reposted in a prospect thread:

Ivan Demidov prefers center to wing

Expectations will be high when Ivan Demidov arrives in Montreal. There’s been a lot of talk about him since the last draft, and that’s normal in a way, because in the eyes of many, he should never have slipped to the Montreal Canadiens’ No.

www.yardbarker.com

 

[WeThreeKings]

I wonder if he’ll get any games with the Habs near the end of this season. The Russians finish earlier but I guess it depends on their playoffs.

Its been reported that SKA intend to be assholes and if they are eliminated before the Habs are done playing, they won't relinquish his contract before the end date of it in May.

 

[NotProkofievian]

Its been reported that SKA intend to be assholes and if they are eliminated before the Habs are done playing, they won't relinquish his contract before the end date of it in May.

As is only good and proper! The NHL rapscallions think they can continue to rob the KHL blind, they have another thing coming! We were fooled!

/ @ReHabs

 

[ReHabs]

As is only good and proper! The NHL rapscallions think they can continue to rob the KHL blind, they have another thing coming! We were fooled!

/ @ReHabs

They let Michkov go, stop falling for propaganda. Until it happens or doesn’t happen there’s no point getting riled up.

 

[schwang26]

No, his contract would say otherwise

If their season is over, what contract?

They let Michkov go, stop falling for propaganda. Until it happens or doesn’t happen there’s no point getting riled up.

Exactly and I still feel there was something fishy about that whole situation. They’re screwing Demidov over yet they let him out of a 3 year contract? There’s something that we don’t know for sure.

 

[JIMVINNY]

Exactly and I still feel there was something fishy about that whole situation. They’re screwing Demidov over yet they let him out of a 3 year contract? There’s something that we don’t know for sure.

If Michkov is actually as good as so many are saying, and there's no attitude issues, why did SKA not keep him around? Why did they ship him off to Sochi? Why did they let him out of his contract an entire two years early? Nothing makes sense except for the "bad attitude" theory. No team, even Rotenberg's SKA, lets a guy touted this highly to walk away from that many years of team control. Their handling of Demidov makes it clear how they treat players they value, so they clearly didn't value Michkov.

 

[Koivu11]

Penalty shot goal

 

[Jabba11]

Penalty shot goal

His assist is even more impressive

 

[Playmaker09]

I do think the ideal move is to find a centre good enough to make Suzuki our 2C.

TBH moving Demidov back to C would solve a lot of problems.

Otherwise, we're looking at spending 30-35 million on our top 4 wingers alone in the future (Slaf/Laine/Caufield/Demidov), exponentially more than any team in the league. That's without addressing the 1C/2C problem or our shambolic D corps and goaltending + Suzuki already making an additional 7.8.

 

[DarrylshutzSydor]

They did it b

If Michkov is actually as good as so many are saying, and there's no attitude issues, why did SKA not keep him around? Why did they ship him off to Sochi? Why did they let him out of his contract an entire two years early? Nothing makes sense except for the "bad attitude" theory. No team, even Rotenberg's SKA, lets a guy touted this highly to walk away from that many years of team control. Their handling of Demidov makes it clear how they treat players they value, so they clearly didn't value Michkov.

Because they knew his intentions were to play in NA, thus SKASP got trade value at the time. Besides HCS is not good and Mitchkoff wanted more time on ice. Hope this helps.

 

[Habs]

If Michkov is actually as good as so many are saying, and there's no attitude issues, why did SKA not keep him around? Why did they ship him off to Sochi? Why did they let him out of his contract an entire two years early? Nothing makes sense except for the "bad attitude" theory. No team, even Rotenberg's SKA, lets a guy touted this highly to walk away from that many years of team control. Their handling of Demidov makes it clear how they treat players they value, so they clearly didn't value Michkov.

It's not a mystery, just look at his stats, he's a sniper.

 

[Shred]

I knew he was in good hands:

“Roman Rotenberg talks with me to help me perform better”
-Demidov

I read that sentence as "As you can see, I am obviously on my own here and taking charge of my own development".

 

[Frankenheimer]

If Michkov is actually as good as so many are saying, and there's no attitude issues, why did SKA not keep him around? Why did they ship him off to Sochi? Why did they let him out of his contract an entire two years early? Nothing makes sense except for the "bad attitude" theory. No team, even Rotenberg's SKA, lets a guy touted this highly to walk away from that many years of team control. Their handling of Demidov makes it clear how they treat players they value, so they clearly didn't value Michkov.

Well, there is an alternate theory and the one that I'm inclined to believe, and that is that there was an informal, money-assisted agreement to end the contract early. That was my initial feeling, and seeing Michkov pretty much dominate as a 19-year old shows that either SKA is a really poor evaluator of talent, or that other factors were in play in the decision-making.

It's also not hard to imagine that they made this exception once (for Michkov), but not twice, in order to kill any notion for other upstart talents that it would be easy to get out of a contract. I think this is a message-sending action, rather than reflecting a different evaluation of player talent.

 

[le_sean]

TBH moving Demidov back to C would solve a lot of problems.

Otherwise, we're looking at spending 30-35 million on our top 4 wingers alone in the future (Slaf/Laine/Caufield/Demidov), exponentially more than any team in the league. That's without addressing the 1C/2C problem or our shambolic D corps and goaltending + Suzuki already making an additional 7.8.

Demidov isn’t a centre and shouldn’t be used as one

 

[CristianoRonaldo]

If Michkov is actually as good as so many are saying, and there's no attitude issues, why did SKA not keep him around? Why did they ship him off to Sochi? Why did they let him out of his contract an entire two years early? Nothing makes sense except for the "bad attitude" theory. No team, even Rotenberg's SKA, lets a guy touted this highly to walk away from that many years of team control. Their handling of Demidov makes it clear how they treat players they value, so they clearly didn't value Michkov.

"Something is fishy, if Demidov is as good as we think and has no attitude problems, why is he getting benched ? He's way better than many players on the roster. It's suspicious, SKA must have a reason. Are you telling me that they would rather lose games, than play one of their best players ? It makes no sense."