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

[CandyCanes]

Oh no..sounds like a possible concussion.



NYR fan checking in on his possible playoff status.

Oof that looks to be a concussion

 

[Discipline Daddy]

What an absurd over-the-top explosion on an open ice hit. If that happened in the NHL, he'd certainly get the other team a 2 minute bench minor for complaining at the lack of a call or suspension.

 

[WreckingCrew]

Sweet, so we're finally going to get our best prospect and now he'll come with a free concussion history!!! We can't have nice things!

Seriously though, straight up through the head, that'd be a big suspension in the NHL (if it was one of our players against a Rangers player or something similar)

 

[chaz4hockey]

Sweet, so we're finally going to get our best prospect and now he'll come with a free concussion history!!! We can't have nice things!

Seriously though, straight up through the head, that'd be a big suspension in the NHL (if it was one of our players against a Rangers player or something similar)

I wonder if KHL refs have a dual penalty approach: one for players that are staying in the KHL and one for those that are leaving

 

[A Star is Burns]

I would imagine there aren't a ton of hockey players at the top levels that don't have some sort of concussion history. Even with more protocols in place (maybe not in Russia, no idea) I'm betting there are still loads of undiagnosed ones.

 

[hblueridgegal]

As suspected

 

[Svechhammer]

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As suspected

They let him play out the game because they don't care about his long term health anymore. He won't even be in the league next year, so if they just negligently allow him to develop a career impacting complication... Oops

 

[chaz4hockey]

Only positive is that Nikishin gets to rest for a bit....team has been riding him hard with re: to minutes this year.

Still can't understand why that wasn't a charging penalty.

 

[Finlandia WOAT]

It used to be a lot worse, part of the cause of the DPA era was the IHL and other development leagues (really men's leagues) brutalizing prospects to the point they were already broken down by the time they were 20. Patrick Stefan is well known as one of the biggest draft busts of all time, what's less well known is he suffered major 3 concussions before he turned 18, including one that forced him to sit out for 6 months.

 

[HisIceness]

Please just get him here now. They're playing him to death (25 minutes a night is a lot).