I hope you guys are right with all that Demidov + Reinbacher being the best picks, but if we could go back I'd still do Michkov + Demidov. I crave for offense.
In the Demidov vs Michkov thread, many say that Michkov will be the best at offense, while Demidov will be the best player overall (while still capable of elite offense).
And it seems the recent cup teams all had 2 (or more) elite offensive weapons.
Crosby-Malkin
Connor-Leon
Barkov-Tkachuk
Kane-Toews
And I could go on...
Anyway, from what I heard from Lapointe, they got scared by Michkov because of uncertainties, but I think he was the BPA. Hope I'm wrong.
No the 'uncertainties' was the easy out for why they didn't pick the player. You aren't going to see the GM, Pres or Head Scouts go out there and say they weren't taking Michkov because he has bad character, bad attitude, and shows no intention of ever being in his defensive zone.
The scout/political speech was one thing, what actually put them off of him was the concerns about the individual and his character, that's why the CULTURE word was used with Reinbacher.. and then they were concerned about his size and stature in a top 6 that already had Caufield, and then they had problems with the fact that he wasn't a willing player in his own defensive zone, he didn't have to be good, he had to be willing, and he wasn't.
The obviously respect his offensive talent but they are looking at other things as ingredients to building a winner and he didn't check the boxes for them. It's pretty clear now that he didn't because when faced with a similar decision a year later, they were beyond ecstatic to take Demidov.