Unless there was actually contact between Huberdeau and someone from Vityaz then there is absolutely no way this affects his NHL draft order. Did Vityaz just pick random CHL top prospects to throw picks away on or have they actually spoken to any of these players prior to drafting them?
I'd assume they just picked him because they didn't have a lot of players from their own system to protect and knew he was talented.
Of their five selections, only two were from their system.
The other three were all from North America (Huberdeau, Dumba, and McNeill) and were probably selected because they will retain their rights until they are 28, so if the NHL locks out or something and they want to play in the KHL, they'd play for Vityaz or Vityaz would receive something in return for them in a trade.
The KHL draft is not like the NHL draft though in the sense that if a team selects high in the draft, they are going to have the best player available to select.
Like I said before, teams protect players from their systems, so it's really just picking from a.) Russian players from schools that are affiliated with a KHL team which that team doesn't protect (if they aren't protected, they most likely aren't anything special), b.) Russian players from unaffiliated schools (like Gazovik Tyumen, a team that wants to be in the KHL but doesn't have a suitable arena; a bunch of their players were selected today), or c.) non-Russian players.
So basically, it's slim pickings if you don't have good protected players and teams are willing to select players even if they are unlikely to come over.
I don't really understand why it even exists in it's current form; it's probably just for publicity and to give North American people who don't understand how it works another reason to make fun of the league.
Some teams don't even seem to take it seriously, so I'm pretty sure it will not have any effect on where he is selected in the NHL draft.
