F Igor Chernyshov - Saginaw Spirit, OHL (2024, 33rd, SJS)

[Pavel Buchnevich]

When you played the game on Hard level and then got back to Easy one...

I love how it’s being applauded by some that he did this.

People are acting surprised and impressed that a guy who was playing professional hockey joined a junior hockey league and is beating up on a bunch of little kids.

I’m sure it makes Parekh and Misa better than they were previously too that they get to leach points off a ringer.

 

[HighLifeMan]

This is not a criticism by any means, but hockey must be a real fun game to play when essentially every second shot you take on net results in a goal This kids on a heater.

Will be interesting to see what the big guns in Saginaw can manage in the playoffs.

 

[OilersFanatics505]

I love how it’s being applauded by some that he did this.

People are acting surprised and impressed that a guy who was playing professional hockey joined a junior hockey league and is beating up on a bunch of little kids.

I’m sure it makes Parekh and Misa better than they were previously too that they get to leach points off a ringer.

How often does a player come from overseas and immediately have an impact playing on N.A. ice after not playing for 8 months with an injury?

 

[SomeDude]

I love how it’s being applauded by some that he did this.

People are acting surprised and impressed that a guy who was playing professional hockey joined a junior hockey league and is beating up on a bunch of little kids.

I’m sure it makes Parekh and Misa better than they were previously too that they get to leach points off a ringer.

You act like he’s some 30 year old grizzled vet. He’s the same age as the other players out there.

 

[Zine]

Shark fans, Russians, everybody, would be on the same page if he spent the remainder of the year in the MHL dominating kids. Ok, so he's dominating, but......

Yet now he's dunking on future accountants and truck drivers in the OHL it's something to get super excited over?

THE major difference between him and other Russians who go major juniors is he's taking a step back, playing against lesser competition than he did the year before.
He should be dominating after spending the majority of last year playing against/practicing with men on Dynamo.

 

[JoeThorntonsRooster]

I love how it’s being applauded by some that he did this.

People are acting surprised and impressed that a guy who was playing professional hockey joined a junior hockey league and is beating up on a bunch of little kids.

I’m sure it makes Parekh and Misa better than they were previously too that they get to leach points off a ringer.

He’s a 19 year old second round pick in his D+1. If he is truly a “ringer” in the OHL at this point, then at least 20 teams failed by not drafting him before SJ.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

What the h. have they been feeding this kid since he got to NA?
He's up to 225 lbs now?
Let's hope his weight game is more Ovi and less Krutov (Gym vs Kitchen)

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[wetcoast]

When you played the game on Hard level and then got back to Easy one...

Josh Leivo is that you?

It's mutually beneficial. If Chernyshov is on a team where someone isn't giving him great set up passes or isn't able to finish the set ups he creates, then he's not doing what he's doing now. He would be successful no matter what CHL team he would have played on, but you can't just plug him into any lineup and expect 3 PPG.

Exactly.

Does bring up an interesting situation though. If the Sharks don't win the lottery and say end up with pick 2 or 3, do they try to trade up to 1 to keep these two together? Give yourself 2 lines from the get go? Celebrini and Smith. Misa and Chernyshov.

Came here to say this and if they do Pick Misa then no doubt in some future post all Sharks success will be because of one guy right?

 

[wetcoast]

Think of how goofy three lines built around Eklund-Celebrini/Musty-Smith/Misa-Chernyshov would be. Obviously Schaefer is the real prize for the Sharks but at this point I'd be almost as happy with Misa.

I think Schaefer is the best fit and BPA for the sharks if he is there and also the NHL is a top 6 type of league, if Misa-Chernyshov are on the 3rd line then they probably haven't panned out.

He’s a 19 year old second round pick in his D+1. If he is truly a “ringer” in the OHL at this point, then at least 20 teams failed by not drafting him before SJ.

Teams also draft for future NHL projection not OHL ringers the year after their draft year.

 

[wetcoast]

Shark fans, Russians, everybody, would be on the same page if he spent the remainder of the year in the MHL dominating kids. Ok, so he's dominating, but......

Yet now he's dunking on future accountants and truck drivers in the OHL it's something to get super excited over?

Kind of ironic that one those future guys is leading the KHL in scoring eh?

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Glass houses my comrade.

THE major difference between him and other Russians who go major juniors is he's taking a step back, playing against lesser competition than he did the year before.
He should be dominating kids after spending the majority of last year playing against/practicing with men on Dynamo.

 

[DesmondDekker]

Think of how goofy three lines built around Eklund-Celebrini/Musty-Smith/Misa-Chernyshov would be. Obviously Schaefer is the real prize for the Sharks but at this point I'd be almost as happy with Misa.

Add in a supporting cast of Zetterlund, Bystedt, Haltunnen, Graf, etc to complete your top 9

The Sharks should win a cup in the 2030’s

 

[Zine]

Kind of ironic that one those future guys is leading the KHL in scoring eh?

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Glass houses my comrade.

Don't be disingenuous. a 32 year old Josh Leivo would absolutely rip apart the OHL if he was dropped into the league.

I mean look how easy it is for painfully average over-agers (20 year olds) to dominate major juniors.

You can't compare men leagues vs juniors. Not even the same universe.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

He’s a 19 year old second round pick in his D+1. If he is truly a “ringer” in the OHL at this point, then at least 20 teams failed by not drafting him before SJ.

Don't forget that he was looked at as an easy first rounder before he showed up to the draft combine (or was it the Russian combine in Florida?), and got bad reviews for not taking it serious enough.

I think people forget that Chernyshov's reputation has fallen a lot in the last year. Part of that is unlucky due to injuries, but this is a player that when he's right has been a very productive player.

 

[wetcoast]

Don't be disingenuous. a 32 year old Josh Leivo would absolutely rip apart the OHL if he was dropped into the league.

I mean look how easy it is for painfully average over-agers to dominate major juniors.

You can't compare men leagues vs juniors. Not even the same universe.

I think that you are missing my point, maybe something got lost in translation?

 

[Hockeyville USA]

Don't be disingenuous. a 32 year old Josh Leivo would absolutely rip apart the OHL if he was dropped into the league.

I mean look how easy it is for painfully average over-agers (20 year olds) to dominate major juniors.

You can't compare men leagues vs juniors. Not even the same universe.

Major junior

 

[SomeDude]

Don't forget that he was looked at as an easy first rounder before he showed up to the draft combine (or was it the Russian combine in Florida?), and got bad reviews for not taking it serious enough.
.

Because he got sunburnt from not applying enough sun screen on the beach the day before. It was a stupid reason to move him down in rankings then and it still is now.

 

[Zine]

I think that you are missing my point, maybe something got lost in translation?

Well apparently many people are missing your points. Because a few pages back nobody had any clue what you were talking about regarding Chernyshov being a calder candidate next year too.

 

[Juxtaposer]

I think Schaefer is the best fit and BPA for the sharks if he is there and also the NHL is a top 6 type of league, if Misa-Chernyshov are on the 3rd line then they probably haven't panned out.

The Penguins won Cups with Jordan Staal and Phil Kessel on their third lines. Sometimes lineups are best served by putting your three best forwards on separate lines.

In this scenario, you'd have Celebrini and Eklund powering an elite shutdown line while still scoring at first line rates, Misa and Chernyshov to take second-tier matchups and win handily, and Smith and Musty feasting on opponents' third lines and pairings. If all those guys pan out as expected (unlikely), that's a Cup-caliber forward group. Especially when the rest can be filled in by guys like Zetterlund, Graf, Bystedt, and Halttunen.

Add in a supporting cast of Zetterlund, Bystedt, Haltunnen, Graf, etc to complete your top 9

The Sharks should win a cup in the 2030’s

Well, I wouldn't go anointing us until we do something about the defense... but it's a great starting point for sure.

 

[BondraTime]

People are making it seem as though Chernyshov is just ragdolling kids and manhandling the puck into the net.

A very, very large majority of his points have come from his very high hockey sense and vision, and not a single one has come from him being bigger and stronger than the "kids" he's playing against. The fact he's a fridge on skates is a huge plus to his IQ and vision.

He's made 5/6 absolute dime passes through 4 people from the halfwall for 1 timers and tap ins

Without a doubt, Saginaw's rope a dope style is going to help offensively talented and smart players. That no doubt will have a hand in some numbers from guys.

Goal 1 - Posted in front of net for tap in on a 2 on 1 off a turnover
Goal 2 - Skates through the middle 1 v 4 and fires a shot from the top of the circles top shelf
Assist 1 - Floats a cross ice pass through the box for a free 1 timer
Goal 3 - Late trailer on a zone entry where he holds on to the puck and uses the D as a screen to the far side corner
Goal 4 - Carries puck into the zone, holds onto the puck with 2 fakes, looks off the D and puts it far side through a screen
Assist 2 - Feeds down low on a blueline swing, gets secondary assist
Goal 5 - Posted up in front on PP, gets empty net tap in. Did very little for the goal credit
Assist 3 - Can't find
Goal 6 - Finds dead ice on zone entry, gets a wide open feed in the slot
Assist 4 - Pass through the seam to the slot on PP
Assist 5 - Pass through the box for a free 1 timer on PP.
Assist 6 - Pass through the box for a free 1 tim\er
Goal 7 - Floats to dead ice, puts 1 timer from slot top shelf
Goal 8 - Gets sent in alone, goes 5 hole
Goal 9 - In slot, finds and stays in dead ice, fed 1 timer from below the goal line
Goal 10 - Playing the point opposite Parekh on PP, gets puck and holds onto it for a few seconds pushing everyone back and rips a shot from the hashmarks
Assist 7 - Passes through the box for a tap in at the far side post
Assis 8 - Empty netter, free point on 2 on 1 from their own circles

He reminds me an absolute ton of Stone back in his Brandon days.

Hemming played a full season of Pro as well, he should be tuning up all the kids

 

[frontsfan67]

I love how it’s being applauded by some that he did this.

People are acting surprised and impressed that a guy who was playing professional hockey joined a junior hockey league and is beating up on a bunch of little kids.

I’m sure it makes Parekh and Misa better than they were previously too that they get to leach points off a ringer.

If it wasn’t impressive why don’t other guys do this?

Pavel will the satire ever stop?

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

If it wasn’t impressive why don’t other guys do this?

Pavel will the satire ever stop?

You recognize he's like a top 20 prospect from the last draft that fell at the end of the process due to non hockey stuff (bad interviews, injury, and probably also being Russian)?

How many players from each draft does the OHL have? Sennecke, Parekh, Dickinson, Luchanko, and I guess Jiricek now. First three are all having huge statistical seasons. Chernyshov has better stats for now, but he's also on an unsustainable heater, and won't score at this pace. He'll likely be in line with those other top guys when the season is up. Luchanko plays for a bad team and isn't an offensive driver and isn't having more than an okay season. Jiricek isn't a big scorer either and is coming off an injury.

Chernyshov is doing a good job. I just don't know why it's some huge deal. He's 205+ pounds (apparently now 225). He played in the KHL last year. He was viewed as a big time player in the last draft and fell for non-hockey reasons. This shouldn't be some big surprise. Maybe the extent of the heater he's on (that'll of course regress to a more logical pace) and that he needed no time coming off his injury, but maybe playing in a significantly easier league allows for him to pick up where he left off after the injury.

 

[wetcoast]

Well apparently many people are missing your points. Because a few pages back nobody had any clue what you were talking about regarding Chernyshov being a calder candidate next year too.

i don't do it very often anymore but sometimes I used to make the page bigger so when i was reading posts, I couldn't see who had posted it and I try to focus on the actual words said and not fill in the gaps or make huge assumptions in logic that aren't stated.

I suggest this to anyone, like that poster who clearly was having problems reading what I had said.

I love Igor as a prospect and Misa and Parekh as well and sure some posters like to poke (I do as well at times) but at other times people get too defensive about their postions and instead of looking inward they alwasy attack.

Just some random thoughts on this as they often apply to me as well.