ATD Chat Thread XX

[Habsfan18]

Speaking of tanks, who remembers the Russian Bear Evgeny Artukhin? If you took someone who never watched a hockey game in their life and showed them a random Tampa or Atlanta game from like 15-20 years ago and asked them to guess who the star player was, they'd probably pick him.

6'6, 255lbs and could f***ing FLY out there. Skated like Paul Kariya or a similar guy of small stature but in that massive frame. Legitimately looked like a million bucks out there but then you'd look at the score sheet and it was always big fat 0's all around (except for hits). Nothing he ever did amounted to any actual offensive productivity. But visually you'd think this was a 40-40 guy. And man did I see him RUN through guys out there. Couldn't have been fun to play against.

Size and speed is often deceiving. Those guys tend to LOOK great and without stat watching, casual viewers could easily be fooled into thinking they're much better than they actually were. Chad Kilger was another one of those guys. He'd show those flashes where you'd be like holy crap that's shades of Lindros...but then he'd finish the season with 20 points.

This Protas kid passes the eye test but he also is backing it up on the score sheet. The Caps might have a real good one on their hands. And his brother is playing for my Windsor Spitfires. Another big boy who may join his brother on the Caps one day.

 

[VanIslander]

I've never heard of the guy.

The "Russian Bear" is most often the moniker of the ATD'd staple foil of Esposito in the Summit Series.

 

[spitsfan24]

Speaking of tanks, who remembers the Russian Bear Evgeny Artukhin? If you took someone who never watched a hockey game in their life and showed them a random Tampa or Atlanta game from like 15-20 years ago and asked them to guess who the star player was, they'd probably pick him.

6'6, 255lbs and could f***ing FLY out there. Skated like Paul Kariya or a similar guy of small stature but in that massive frame. Legitimately looked like a million bucks out there but then you'd look at the score sheet and it was always big fat 0's all around (except for hits). Nothing he ever did amounted to any actual offensive productivity. But visually you'd think this was a 40-40 guy. And man did I see him RUN through guys out there. Couldn't have been fun to play against.

Size and speed is often deceiving. Those guys tend to LOOK great and without stat watching, casual viewers could easily be fooled into thinking they're much better than they actually were. Chad Kilger was another one of those guys. He'd show those flashes where you'd be like holy crap that's shades of Lindros...but then he'd finish the season with 20 points.

This Protas kid passes the eye test but he also is backing it up on the score sheet. The Caps might have a real good one on their hands. And his brother is playing for my Windsor Spitfires. Another big boy who may join his brother on the Caps one day.

*ahem* My Windsor Spitfires you mean.

But I agree with everything else you said here.

 

[Habsfan18]

*ahem* My Windsor Spitfires you mean.

But I agree with everything else you said here.

Can't they be ours? Actually, if you live IN Windsor, I guess I should concede. I'm like 45 minutes away!

I get to Windsor every now and then. Love going to Devonshire. Less now though that they ripped my heart out of my chest by closing Buffalo Wild Wings.

 

[nabby12]

Ilya Protas is a stud too! 93 points in 51 games as an 18 year old with Windsor is awesome.

Hope they play on a line one day together in Washington.

 

[Habsfan18]

I've never heard of the guy.

The "Russian Bear" is most often the moniker of the ATD'd staple foil of Esposito in the Summit Series.

 

[spitsfan24]

Can't they be ours? Actually, if you live IN Windsor, I guess I should concede. I'm like 45 minutes away!

I get to Windsor every now and then. Love going to Devonshire. Less now though that they ripped my heart out of my chest by closing Buffalo Wild Wings.

I do live in Windsor, yes. I've had season tickets for 12 seasons now. But the team is big enough for the both of us, I guess.

And I had honestly just gotten over BWW closing. I used to go there all the time. You've brought the pain all back now, but nice to know I'm not the only one devastated by its closing.

Ilya Protas is a stud too! 93 points in 51 games as an 18 year old with Windsor is awesome.

Hope they play on a line one day together in Washington.

He really is. Him and Greentree (the LA first rounder) have been incredibly dominant on the same line.

It's funny how with big Protas, he fell in the draft because of the worries about his skating. We've obviously seen how much he's fixed that.

And now, it seems like everybody (except for Washington) made the same mistake once again with Ilya. He's not a great skater by any means, but his talent level is so high, he doesn't even need to be a burner. If his skating improves like his brother? Watch out.