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

[Unsustainable]

Yep. I noted it after we drafted him but the tools are there for this guy and it was always going to be a question of if he could put it together. Some of the stuff he was doing (mind you against smaller players) in the Russian junior leagues was stuff guys his size have no business being able to do. Well 2 years later he's starting to be able to do it against people (almost) his own size and with much more experience.

i think his health issue pushed him down the draft to us. But we need to get him across the pond

 

[CandyCanes]

Interesting

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

Interesting

Yeah it's wild, they've been using him like this on the PP since the start of the season. I like it but highly doubt it would ever work in the NHL. Not even sure it's working great in the KHL, I don't know Spartak well enough to know their alternatives though.

 

[Stickpucker]

He plays with a mean edge to his game.

Him and Drury on the ice together in the future could do nice things for our team

And Rees.

These type of players get me excited. Someone super valuable come playoffs.

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

We going to give him a Sorokin like deal to get him to come over here?

 

[DaveG]

We going to give him a Sorokin like deal to get him to come over here?

Closest guess is we probably have to wait until the ELC will be only 1 year before he can cash in on his second contact if we think he can hang in the show.

 

[Svechhammer]

And Rees.

These type of players get me excited. Someone super valuable come playoffs.

Seriously! Looking at the makeup of some of these guys we're maybe a year away from playing here full-time, and... Everyone knows we have the talent to win the Cup, but we tend to get bodied. Having some weight of our own to throw around during the stretch run and into the playoffs? That could very well be the next step we need to push us over the top.

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

Seriously! Looking at the makeup of some of these guys we're maybe a year away from playing here full-time, and... Everyone knows we have the talent to win the Cup, but we tend to get bodied. Having some weight of our own to throw around during the stretch run and into the playoffs? That could very well be the next step we need to push us over the top.

On paper anyways, the makeup of our roster and prospect pool really is just perfect for building a legit cup contender. My only concern is in net

 

[raynman]

On paper anyways, the makeup of our roster and prospect pool really is just perfect for building a legit cup contender. My only concern is in net

Could you imagine if they could land a Vasilevskiy level goalie?

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

Could you imagine if they could land a Vasilevskiy level goalie?

I absolutely love Jarvis and he's gonna be great but I still kinda wish that Askarov fell to us that draft. He'd be the perfect young franchise goalie to join this squad right in the contention window

 

[DaveG]

On paper anyways, the makeup of our roster and prospect pool really is just perfect for building a legit cup contender. My only concern is in net

Goaltending doesn't worry me much. Getting the right guy behind the system on a heater is the big thing and the position is so unpredictable that guys that either looked completely cooked (Fleury) or like complete nobodies (Binnington) just one year prior have taken teams to the finals if not won the whole damn thing.

 

[CandyCanes]

 

[Unsustainable]

he’s cemented himself on the top pair

 

[tarheelhockey]

I love the little smile. He knew that he got got.

 

[teddygmr]

I love the little smile. He knew that he got got.

He scored another goal today....on a slapshot..now has 4 and getting lots of ice time!

 

[zman77]

Nikishin is 19 yrs old on a veteran Moscow Spartak Team.
He's playing as a #3-4 D-Man this season.
Point Total is impressive.

21	Jori Lehtera	C	28	7	16	23	13	0	1987-12-23	33	Helsinki, Finland	6.02	209
93	Alexander Khokhlachev	C	30	9	12	21	18	5	1993-09-09	27	Moscow, Russia	5.11	187
52	Sergei Shirokov	R	28	7	10	17	6	1	1986-03-10	35	Moscow, Russia	5.10	196
90	Andrei Loktionov	C	30	8	8	16	6	4	1990-05-30	31	Voskresensk, Russia	5.10	198
72	Tim Heed	D	30	2	14	16	6	-2	1991-01-27	30	Gothenburg, Sweden	5.11	180
14	Emil Pettersson	C	28	9	6	15	2	-2	1994-01-14	27	Sundsvall, Sweden	6.01	176
18	Dmitri Kugryshev	R	27	2	11	13	0	1	1990-01-18	31	Moscow, Russia	5.11	185
96	Jake Virtanen	R	20	8	4	12	6	-1	1996-08-17	25	Langley, BC	6.01	226
55	Dmitri Vishnevsky	D	30	2	9	11	8	-2	1990-01-03	31	Moscow, Russia	5.10	187
57	Alexander Nikishin	D	29	3	3	6	37	2	2001-10-02	19		6.03	196

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

I really hope the money to buy him out of his KHL deal is low and we can bring him in as 3LD next year.

 

[Unsustainable]

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

for all of you non-Russian reading folks:
he Kontinental Hockey League has announced the final rosters of KHL players to participate in the "Week of Hockey Stars" in Chelyabinsk - with a Master Show on January 15 and the All-Star Game on January 16. Among the players selected by the league was Spartak defender Alexander Nikishin.

 

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[Discipline Daddy]

Blah blah blah blah blah blah Nikishin. Nikishin clenish no paw paw blah blah blah

I imagine the two announcers are talking about how their interpretations of The Brothers Karamazov rather than commenting on a hockey game.

 

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[LostInaLostWorld]

Well, if he was with the big club the Situation Room would say a big fat NYET!

 

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[Vagrant]

i'm going to have to luke martin this guy for the board. the skating just isn't there for me. a big part of projecting players is projecting the fit when you have a regime as entrenched as this one. the one thing they've shown us over and over is that they don't consider physicality to be as important back there. they want mobility, puck movement, fewer penalties, and poise. i think he was a BPA pick based on his medicals, but they probably didn't have much of a plan for him. if you're wanting an enforcer type, the best place to have them isn't on your defense. if he crosses the line, you're going to have a lot of time playing with 5 guys available. if he's on the 4th line as a forward, that's easier to work. he's a square peg in a round hole in this system.

he reminds me a little of anton volchenkov, who was stylistically out of shelf life by the time he turned 30. the league has just moved on from these kind of players.