Prospect Info: April 2: Alexei Kolosov has joined AHL Phantoms (Goalie, 2021 draft pick); played April 13

[renberg]

How many Russian speakers want to live in Allentown for a one year job?

Simple solution: keep him in Philly and don’t send him to Allentown. He could have been the third goalie in the Flyers rotation.

 

[freakydallas13]

"No translator " has to be the worst excuse yet. They didn't even try.

 

[prototypical4thliner]

You live in Bustelton?

Bruh. The Bensalem in me hurts in Russian.

 

[BiggE]

There is no excuse, the organization is incompetent. In just the last 5 or so years they’ve:
Hired Fletcher
Hired AV
Acquired Risto
Devalued Ghost and sent him packing
Signed Hayes
Extended Risto
Showed little to no respect for Giroux
Hired Torts
Promoted Jones & Briere
Blew any chance for Cutter to be a Flyer
Failed to move Laughton
Extended Lappy
f***ed up the ‘24 draft
Failed to move TK
Re-signed TK
Bungled Kolosov

They are the literal textbook definition of inept.

 

[TheKingPin]

I thought they were working the Russia angle. They had Michkov and fedotov. Make this place a Russian destination spot when no one else wants them.

 

[Beef Invictus]

The Phillies have a Spanish interpreter for a dozen Spanish players.
And in the minors, there are teammates and coaches who speak Spanish.
I mean probably 10% of the US population speaks decent Spanish.
But when they had an Italian pitcher, doubt they had an interpreter for him.

Problem is there aren't that many Russian speakers around, it's not like you can find a fluent Russian speaker at the drop of a hat, and there are few Russian players at the AHL level. If you want to start moving Russians through your system, you pretty much have to commit to drafting 1-2 every year or finding the few who'll play at the AHL level (Asinimov last season).

Easier at the NHL level, where the talent justifies the cost and there are more Russian players (b/c they're more willing to come over for NHL money and perks).

Languages spoken in the United States 2022 | Statista

In 2022, around 42.03 million people in the United States spoke Spanish at home.

www.statista.com

There are almost a million people in the US who speak Russian at home. That's before getting into people who have learned it as a second language. It would be pretty easy to find someone.

 

[Beef Invictus]

How many Russian speakers want to live in Allentown for a one year job?

In addition to hanging out with a hockey team? Probably a good amount. You could probably find someone fresh out of college and looking for a gap year. 169 Russian major programs averaging 40 people. Would just take some emails.

You act like we are asking the team to translate Linear A

 

[Beef Invictus]

The Flyers have learned their accommodations for foreign prospects are lacking. If they wanted to solve this problem, they could send me on a two week paid working trip to Ocean City, MD and I could go up and down the town, which is heavily staffed by young Euros of all persuasions. I could dig up an assigned native-language friend for every player in the organization, all willing to work for ice cream shop wages.

This is an easy problem, especially for a team with money.

 

[Starat327]

The Flyers have learned their accommodations for foreign prospects are lacking. If they wanted to solve this problem, they could send me on a two week paid working trip to Ocean City, MD and I could go up and down the town, which is heavily staffed by young Euros of all persuasions. I could dig up an assigned native-language friend for every player in the organization, all willing to work for ice cream shop wages.

This is an easy problem, especially for a team with money.

They're learning as they go, Beef. I don't know what more you want.

 

[mr figgles]

Simple solution: keep him in Philly and don’t send him to Allentown. He could have been the third goalie in the Flyers rotation.

This. They didn‘t even play him up there.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

The Flyers have learned their accommodations for foreign prospects are lacking. If they wanted to solve this problem, they could send me on a two week paid working trip to Ocean City, MD and I could go up and down the town, which is heavily staffed by young Euros of all persuasions. I could dig up an assigned native-language friend for every player in the organization, all willing to work for ice cream shop wages.

This is an easy problem, especially for a team with money.

Hell, from my own personal experience there were at least two skating instructors for the general public that worked at the Skate Zone which is obviously where the Flyers operate out of. It's been a couple years since i've been around that but I imagine they're still there or have been replaced by similar people.

 

[swami24]

Bruh. The Bensalem in me hurts in Russian.

I went to a good Uzbek restaurant in Bustleton. It was a BYOB. Everyone brought their own bottle of Vodka.

Georgian Bread is another good place.

 

[deadhead]

In addition to hanging out with a hockey team? Probably a good amount. You could probably find someone fresh out of college and looking for a gap year. 169 Russian major programs averaging 40 people. Would just take some emails.

You act like we are asking the team to translate Linear A

You think all those graduates can actually speak Russian fluently?

And if you can, would you want to hang around a minor league hockey team in Allentown, bored out of your gourd, or go to Washington, where there are numerous positions for Russian speakers with much better promotion opportunities?

 

[Beef Invictus]

You think all those graduates can actually speak Russian fluently?

And if you can, would you want to hang around a minor league hockey team in Allentown, bored out of your gourd, or go to Washington, where there are numerous positions for Russian speakers with much better promotion opportunities?

Do they NEED to? I think not. And guess what, they'd only get better.

You can also head down to Ocean City and find 5 fluent speakers for each player in the franchise if you want. As in, all of them, whether they need them or not.

Acting like finding Russian speakers to aid the guy is some massive challenge is absurd. Hell, I have five Russian speakers in my townhome row. I know another on the other side of the neighborhood, two more up the street who just moved to NY, and another 10 minutes north of me from Rostov.

This ain't hard. They just didn't try. They just didn't think about it. Not a good look considering Briere was right there as Bob came along and was quite open about how hard that was. Jones was here for it too. And Hanrahan. And Homer. And Clarke. The knowledge is there. They just don't care. As they showed yet again with Gauthier, Farabee, and Couturier l, they are generally opposed to giving players any accommodations. The only reason they've been somewhat nice to Michkov is that their careers might all end if he bails and he holds all the power.

 

[BringBackHakstol]

Defend defend defend

 

[JojoTheWhale]

You think all those graduates can actually speak Russian fluently?

And if you can, would you want to hang around a minor league hockey team in Allentown, bored out of your gourd, or go to Washington, where there are numerous positions for Russian speakers with much better promotion opportunities?

The Jersey Shore is full of Eastern Europeans coming in for seasonal employment at low wages on the US scale that are begging for the work to allow them to extend their stay. They’d be close in age to Kolosov too.

Hell, Hilferty is super connected in OCNJ. He alone would have access to the people to tell them exactly who to bring in for it without having to leave one island.

 

[Beef Invictus]

The Jersey Shore is full of Eastern Europeans coming in for seasonal employment at low wages on the US scale that are begging for the work to allow them to extend their stay. They’d be close in age to Kolosov too.

You could go to your nearest Rita's and have this solved in minutes.

 

[Cody Webster]

You think all those graduates can actually speak Russian fluently?

And if you can, would you want to hang around a minor league hockey team in Allentown, bored out of your gourd, or go to Washington, where there are numerous positions for Russian speakers with much better promotion opportunities?

 

[deadhead]

The Jersey Shore is full of Eastern Europeans coming in for seasonal employment at low wages on the US scale that are begging for the work to allow them to extend their stay. They’d be close in age to Kolosov too.

You'd have to vet them.

I'd suspect some have Russian mafia ties and others are FSB plants - and given the current state of Russia, some are both. And you want to make sure if you're hiring someone to hold Kolosov's hand, that they're not going to get him into trouble.

[most young East Europeans don't speak Russian, most pick up English as their second language, like most Europeans]

I just think they were over whelmed by events, not sure they expected either Kolosov or Fedotov to come over last spring. They now have three Russians on the NHL roster, so that's not a big issue, but harder to pull off in Allentown.

 

[Beef Invictus]

You'd have to vet them.

I'd suspect some have Russian mafia ties and others are FSB plants - and given the current state of Russia, some are both. And you want to make sure if you're hiring someone to hold Kolosov's hand, that they're not going to get him into trouble.

I just think they were over whelmed by events, not sure they expected either Kolosov or Fedotov to come over last spring. They now have three Russians on the NHL roster, so that's not a big issue, but harder to pull off in Allentown.

You don't need to vet them. It is their job to hang out with a young athlete in a foreign land, not to work IT at Raytheon. If the FSB or GRU or mob wants to send an asset to hang out with a goalie, great. It is strategically good for Russia to waste resources.

 

[Cody Webster]

So we went from no Russian speakers around, to the ones that are around might have mafia ties, to the Flyers were just overwhelmed by two players coming over so they couldn't properly prepare...wow, they can never do anything wrong

 

[JojoTheWhale]

You'd have to vet them.

I'd suspect some have Russian mafia ties and others are FSB plants - and given the current state of Russia, some are both. And you want to make sure if you're hiring someone to hold Kolosov's hand, that they're not going to get him into trouble.

I just think they were over whelmed by events, not sure they expected either Kolosov or Fedotov to come over last spring. They now have three Russians on the NHL roster, so that's not a big issue, but harder to pull off in Allentown.

Ocean City in particular had two prostitution/human trafficking incidents that made them quite a bit more strict in who they bring over these days.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Ocean City in particular had two prostitution/human trafficking incidents that made them quite a bit more strict in who they bring over these days.

Look what we could be saving these kids from. Geez it's like Briere wants them to be humanly trafficked by not hiring one for every player.

 

[VladDrag]

This is a ridiculous thread.

 

[Starat327]

This is a ridiculous thread.

Eveeytime I come back to catch up, it jist gets continously worse.

It's the Briere wheelchair incident all over again.