Cody Webster
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Thin one of our awesome reporters have the balls to ask about this?
You mean Danny Briere and company screwed everything up, right? They’re responsible for putting more emphasis on the 27 year old than the 22 year old.Fedotov screwed up everything, otherwise they might have brought Kolosov to Philly and roomed him with Zamula. Probably should have kept Kolosov in Philly and let him hang around the team if they weren't going to start him in LHV.
They just don't have Russians in the minor league system, and given geopolitics, probably not good idea to room him with a Finn (Tuomaala).
Let him play in the KHL, then bring him over with Zavragin/Pautov.
I don't think Fedotov getting a NHL job ahead of him is an issue, Fedotov is 6 years older and has paid his dues. But Allentown isn't exactly a garden spot, and being alone in a hotel without a Russian speaker . . . should have found him a cute interpreter, but not too many in NE Pennsylvania.
Fedotov carried his team to a KHL championship two years ago, had he not been sidelined, he might well be the Flyers starting goalie with Ersson as his backup.You mean Danny Briere and company screwed everything up, right? They’re responsible for putting more emphasis on the 27 year old than the 22 year old.
The whole thing was likely was fueled by optic PR points that they could get the guy who was forced to serve in the military out out of Russia to be a Flyer.
Wait wait wait...they have to evaluate what they have but when it comes to Dmen it's ok to sign scrub vets and block kids?Fedotov carried his team to a KHL championship two years ago, had he not been sidelined, he might well be the Flyers starting goalie with Ersson as his backup.
Kolosov has two good but not great seasons starting in the KHL, he's not a starting NHL goalie right now. If he plays another year or two in the KHL, no big deal - Flyers have to evaluate what they already have on the team.
But… he was sidelined. We don’t get to hand wave it.Fedotov carried his team to a KHL championship two years ago, had he not been sidelined, he might well be the Flyers starting goalie with Ersson as his backup.
Kolosov has two good but not great seasons starting in the KHL, he's not a starting NHL goalie right now. If he plays another year or two in the KHL, no big deal - Flyers have to evaluate what they already have on the team.
We have his rights, and with the Russian economy ready to collapse if decarbonization weakens the oil market the next few years . . . NHL money is awfully attractive.But… he was sidelined. We don’t get to hand wave it.
It’s ok to say the Flyers f***ed this up. They didn’t even play in him LHV.
Lol if you think this guy is going to come back to the NHL with the Flyers organization after this clown show.
This is so demoralizing. I have high hopes for Kolosov, more than any other goalie that's been in the system for years (aside from he who will never be named again).
Losing him back to Europe for Fedotov, a soon to be 28 year old who rocked an 0.800 save percentage in limited NHL ice time is another inexcusable misstep... especially with this news that they treated Kolosov like someone they didn't care whether he stayed or left.
Most embarrassing franchise in the NHL and has no self awareness for their incompetence.![]()
Phantoms played 14 games once Kolosov arrived (discounting game 1 day after arrived):
Peterson: 9 games
Sandstrom: 3 games
Kolosov: 2 games
Yeh... I mean... what the hell.
This incident may explain why teams are reluctant to draft Russians if they're not elite.
It's one thing to provide Michkov the social infrastructure to ease his transition, but to do so in the AHL is more difficult, you're unlikely to have staff who speak Russian, and you'd have to draft Russians on a regular basis to have teammates who speak Russian.
Most of the Swedes speak English, and there are a lot more Swedish draft picks.
Finns are somewhere in between, they probably were more likely to speak Russian decades ago, but I doubt they're comfortable with Russians, especially after the invasion of Ukraine. Russia tried to overrun Finland, and the Finns are always worried they'll try again.
Phantoms played 14 games once Kolosov arrived (discounting game 1 day after arrived):
Peterson: 9 games
Sandstrom: 3 games
Kolosov: 2 games
Yeh... I mean... what the hell.
Phantoms played 14 games once Kolosov arrived (discounting game 1 day after arrived):
Peterson: 9 games
Sandstrom: 3 games
Kolosov: 2 games
Yeh... I mean... what the hell.
I hate this team’s management and coaches so f***ing much. Bunch of buffoons who could not run an ice cream parlour.
Cmon man. You forgot they were in the midst of a playoff race! Playing Kolosov only 2 games ensured they could make the deep playoff run they did and hang up a new banner for Puckface to drool over.
Pretty sure this has nothing to do with why teams are reluctant to draft Russian's. This is just another example of an incompetent organization doing incompetent things. They probably promised him all this playing time, bring him over, play him in two games while a useless sack of shit goalie gets a majority of the playing time on top of letting him sit in a hotel room all by himself for weeks. Nothing else to it. This organization is the absolute worst. Anyone who believes anything they say about the Cutter incident is an idiot. After this, there's no chance anything they said is/was trueThis incident may explain why teams are reluctant to draft Russians if they're not elite.
It's one thing to provide Michkov the social infrastructure to ease his transition, but to do so in the AHL is more difficult, you're unlikely to have staff who speak Russian, and you'd have to draft Russians on a regular basis to have teammates who speak Russian.
Most of the Swedes speak English, and there are a lot more Swedish draft picks.
Finns are somewhere in between, they probably were more likely to speak Russian decades ago, but I doubt they're comfortable with Russians, especially after the invasion of Ukraine. Russia tried to overrun Finland, and the Finns are always worried they'll try again.
Would you quit and go home on your first day? Talk about a mentally weak individual this Kolosov is.If you stick me kind of by myself in some Russian cow town as an American where I'm completely foreign to the language & culture. I’m probably not going to like it either.
Would you quit and go home on your first day? Talk about a mentally weak individual this Kolosov is.
Yes, the situation could be handled MUCH better but he would have complained about something else sooner or later anyways.