Or he's playing against much weaker competition.
2g 6a in 5 games...1st star last night....looks like he's becoming a better player.
I bet playing on a pond against us he'd have 20g per game. Would that make him a better player?
QMJHL<MHL<VHL<KHL
I don't care if he is player of the week every week there. Yakupov peppered the nets with goals in the OHL which is considered a better league than the QMJHL to become a 1OA. So what?
Becoming a better player is when he faces a tough competition and succeeds. So far he failed with that in his admitedly still only beginning most important final stage of development.
wat? it's not a better league, they have their own share of manukyans like conor garlands and others. and if it's such a weak league, how the hell the future nhs star rubtsov looked like crap there and eventually choose to bail out of it? something doesn't compute hereThe MHL not more Quebec league. Even players like Manukyan and Kovalev beat records there though weak players.
Rubtsov struggled in transitioning his ability to the KHL level. He can pad his stats against inferior kids, but it won't make his transition to professional game, where there're loads of talented and experienced players, any easier. He chose the long, bumpy road.
Why didn't Vityaz just send him to the VHL though? Sounds like the place he belongs to at this point.
Rubtsov struggled in transitioning his ability to the KHL level. He can pad his stats against inferior kids
He injured his knee last night in the 1st period after being hauled down on a breakaway and then going awkwardly into the boards. Came up limping, went to the locker room, was ruled out for the game. He was seen on crutches afterwards, but it may have just been precautionary. The team said today he didn't break anything and is currently day-to-day.
1 G 2 A today and named 1st star.
Now at 16 points in 10 games since crossing the pond. Out producing some of the CHLers drafted ahead of him.
Debrincat, Steele, Brooks, Mascherin are all the CHLers outproducing him in ppg that were drafted in 2016 excluding raddysh since you already mentioned him.*Every CHLer drafted ahead of him.![]()
I believe Raddysh is the only 2016 draftee currently in CHL with more PPG.
Though ofc a small sample.