so no points? o-ou. but seriously im pretty impressed how he has started this season. i thought he will have trouble playing his style in khl...but no. good for him and all his fans
Played 11:36 in his game and saw little PP time, had 2 very good chances to score but one time Kuznetsov didn't pass the puck in favor of a shot to the chest of the goalie, and the other time his teammate flubbed a gimme goal on a missed shot after a beautiful pass from Demidov.
To add a bit more context on his usage by coach Rotenberg, the one occasion I noticed Demidov got decent time/opportunity on the PP he drew a penalty for his team to make it a 5-on-3. But then Rotenberg rewarded that effort by choosing to bench Demidov in favor of his veterans for the ensuing 2-man advantage.
So yeah, after two games getting more regular deployment and scoring more coach Rotenberg was back to giving Demidov rookie KHLer treatment in this one.
But as you've said, it's been impressive to see how good Demidov plays in the KHL overall, and how dangerous he looks offensively despite lesser offensive deployment and icetime than would normally be warranted with his level of play were he not a KHL rookie.
So yeah, even without taking stats into consideration Demidov's been great for SKA since the season began and has in my opinion more than answered any questions critics of his might have had about his level of play against a higher level of competition than the MHL.
