Best Scoring 19-Year-Olds In Soviet/Russia/KHL, Last 50 Years.

[Kshahdoo]

In anticipation of Matvei Michkov possibly joining the NHL....these are the best scoring Russian 19-year-olds (i.e. final year of WJC eligibility) in their top league through the years, min. 30 games played.

Points-per-game

1. Pavel Bure - 1991 - 1.05
2. Vladimir Krutov - 1980 - 1.05
3. Evgeni Malkin - 2006 - 1.02
4. Alexander Korolyuk - 1996 - 0.98
5. Andrei Khomutov - 1981 - 0.95
6. Sergei Makarov - 1978 - 0.86
7. Kirill Kaprizov - 2017 - 0.86
8. Matvei Michkov - 2024 - 0.85
9. Boris Alexandrov - 1975 - 0.85
10. Evgeni Kuznetsov - 2012 - 0.84

No adjustments have been made.

There were a couple players - Zimin and Yakushev - beyond 50 years who were even higher scorers. And some of the stats for other players (e.g. Maltsev) from the 1960s might be deficient.

And of all players in the list above Michkov the youngest was Malkin who still was 5 months older than Matvei. Actually for Matvei it was his 18-19 year old season while for all others those were their 19-20 year old seasons...

And don't forget Michkov had a pneumonia problem during his season. Without it it would have been much better for him without any doubts.

 

[Kshahdoo]

In addition to being the highest scoring 19-year-old ever, Pavel Bure was also the highest scoring 17-year-old ever.

Yeah, but his 18 year old season was significantly worse than his 17 year old one...

 

[Staniowski]

In anticipation of Matvei Michkov possibly joining the NHL....these are the best scoring Russian 19-year-olds (i.e. final year of WJC eligibility) in their top league through the years, min. 30 games played.

Points-per-game

1. Pavel Bure - 1991 - 1.05
2. Vladimir Krutov - 1980 - 1.05
3. Evgeni Malkin - 2006 - 1.02
4. Alexander Korolyuk - 1996 - 0.98
5. Andrei Khomutov - 1981 - 0.95
6. Sergei Makarov - 1978 - 0.86
7. Kirill Kaprizov - 2017 - 0.86
8. Matvei Michkov - 2024 - 0.85
9. Boris Alexandrov - 1975 - 0.85
10. Evgeni Kuznetsov - 2012 - 0.84

No adjustments have been made.

There were a couple players - Zimin and Yakushev - beyond 50 years who were even higher scorers. And some of the stats for other players (e.g. Maltsev) from the 1960s might be deficient.

Update on this....Ivan Demidov is currently 10th on this list (with more games to go obviously), just a hair ahead of Kuznetsov, and practically tied with Kaprizov and Michkov for tops in KHL history.

 

[sr edler]

1. Pavel Bure - 1991 - 1.05

What a player. Despite cherry picking all his goals, not having chemistry with anyone, scoring too many goals on Atlanta Thrashers, scoring half of his goals on empty netters, scoring on non-NHL goalies, being slower than Mike Gartner. I can't think of any redeeming qualities.