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Prospect Info: #69(nice)OA - Hurricanes select LHD Alexander Nikishin (Spartak - KHL)

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AhosDatsyukian said:
Maybe but I think the point is that NHL teams could independently go after their prospects to bring them over, i.e. Dundon could make it happen and the NHL couldn't do anything about it because of the Fedotov situation. At least that is the concern that KHL teams have, especially SKA as they have a handful of NHL ready guys.
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That's a battle to save for next off-season if we can't get anything done with Brady though. Like "oh, Boom is coming over for prospect camp... And just happens to be staying in Raleigh after prospect camp and will be trying to win a spot in the Hurricanes defensive rotation"
 
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DaveG said:
That's a battle to save for next off-season if we can't get anything done with Brady though. Like "oh, Boom is coming over for prospect camp... And just happens to be staying in Raleigh after prospect camp and will be trying to win a spot in the Hurricanes defensive rotation" just a few months after we won the Cup.
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I think there's also a limit in how much KHL clubs will be allowed to screw around with players who are projected to be stars and risk souring that relationship. guys like ovechkin and malkin are important political figures and nikishin, if as advertised, might not be a guy they want to prohibit from maximizing his earning potential should something go sideways. plus these guys often come back and play important roles in the future of their KHL franchises when they decide to leave the league by playing the twilight of their careers as big ticket draws or taking front office positions. keeping that relationship is more important than one year of holding said player hostage for his on ice contributions.
 
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chaz4hockey said:
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Man, if this kid is as good as advertised, I'm starting to get the feeling he's going to be a bit of a kucherov for us. A prospect that comes in as a complete luxury add and takes an otherwise great unit and makes them unfairly good to both elevate team performance as well as extend a contention window.

We just have to get some help offensively.
 
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Svechhammer said:
Man, if this kid is as good as advertised, I'm starting to get the feeling he's going to be a bit of a kucherov for us. A prospect that comes in as a complete luxury add and takes an otherwise great unit and makes them unfairly good to both elevate team performance as well as extend a contention window.

We just have to get some help offensively.
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What's insane about Tampa is that they've genuinely had three of those Kucherov moments. First it was Kucherov, then it was Brayden Point, and finally it was Sergachev. It was honestly more important to their era of dominance than their 1st and 2nd overall selections in the late 2000s.
 
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TheReelChuckFletcher said:
What's insane about Tampa is that they've genuinely had three of those Kucherov moments. First it was Kucherov, then it was Brayden Point, and finally it was Sergachev. It was honestly more important to their era of dominance than their 1st and 2nd overall selections in the late 2000s.
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They get total credit for Sergachev because they had the tenacity to deal Jonathan Drouin, who had just scored 53 points in 73 games, for Sergachev, who had 4 NHL games at that point in time. Serg wasn't a draft pick, but was a coup for Yzerman.


This upcoming season, people will say the same about the Canes with our Kucherov moments of drafting Norris winner Jaccob Slavin in the 4th, Art Ross winner Sebastian Aho in the 2nd, and trading for Conn Smythe winner Jordan Martinook (for Marcus Kruger).
 
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So he has a shot. Its kind of crazy how often he's hitting the corners in these clips rather than just blasting it through the goalie.

That adds a whole different dynamic that I wasn't already thinking about regarding this kid. Him paired with Slavin could be unfair
 
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Yeah I've been trying to keep my expectations in check for this guy especially since we don't even necessarily "need" him to hit.

But every time I watch video of him he pops off the page as a top pair defenseman. Just something about the way he moves around the ice. He looks huge and rangy and confident in everything he does.

I was worried "big Russian defenseman that hits like a tank" was just going to turn into this generation's Alexei Emelin or Nikita Zaitsev or whatever. But the presence and poise in those videos... it's a lot more Hedman than Emelin...
 
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Once again, I know Pronman is hit or miss, but the companion piece to his u23 rankings just came out where he just ranks the eligible u23s across the league. Keep in mind, this is all u23s, not just those considered "prospects", so the top 5 are Bedard, Jack Hughes, Stutzle, Fantilli, and Michkov.

Nikishin is 23rd. Directly behind Wyatt Johnson and directly ahead of Logan Cooley, David Reinbacher, Lucas Raymond, Jack Quinn, and Dawson Mercer. (Our own Seth Jarvis is 36th.)

Again, just one man's questionable opinion, but I know I've overcorrected to some extent to hating most if not all of our guys in the pipeline in order to overcome the "people just like their own team's prospects" thing, so it's cool to calibrate against some of the national guys really buying the hype here.
 
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