Just finished the season with 17+40 points in 67 games, most goals among D's and 3rd in points. Not a bad year for him at all. And I still think he should be lock for top-10 and he's at least on par with Chych and Juolevi even though his recent slump period. The more I watched him play this year, the more i caught myself thinking that Sergachev really reminds me of young pre-draft Pietrangelo. Same style of skating, great shooting ability (Sergachev's shot is more accurate tho), excellent vision and IQ, pretty much similar size. But Alex was more polished in terms of defensive plays at the same age. Anyway I do love Misha's upside, he has all the tools to be legitimate number one defenseman at the next level, just should work on his defensive game more.
LD Mikhail Sergachev (2016, 9th, MTL; traded to TBL)
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For those who want to see Sergachev (and lots of good prospects on both teams): Sportsnet One is showing Game 1 of the Windsor-Kitchener series tonight.
Because you have to translate from a different alphabet (Cyrillic), you can get different spellings depending on which translation system you use. Use whichever one you want, though the simpler spelling will probably be the accepted one, going forward
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Saw about 45% of the game.
Sergachev once again spent the game playing the left side and then the right side from what I saw.
I wonder how he would look if they played him on only one side.
I think Consentino said it best...there is nothing he can't do on the ice. Very intriguing prospect, especially as a fan of a team likely to pick 9th or 10th the way it's going.
Sergachev once again spent the game playing the left side and then the right side from what I saw.
I wonder how he would look if they played him on only one side.
I think Consentino said it best...there is nothing he can't do on the ice. Very intriguing prospect, especially as a fan of a team likely to pick 9th or 10th the way it's going.
This Сергачёв is the correct one. For obvious reasons in NA you'll have to go with the latin letters. so different spellngs from different sources might occur while people try to spell his name according to the russian pronouncation or the russian spelling(which is probably wrong).
The russian pronounciation is close to Ser-ga(like in "gun")-chyov(chyo like in "venture").
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Took them long enough. Had him as my top defenseman for a few months now.
Although seems a bit of a contradictive statement, didnt Bobby Mac say Juolevi seemed to be the top defenseman just last week?
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Bob flip flops more than French toast.
He had Juolevi at 4 last show I watched.
Oh, Sergachev had a great game and was Dman of the week? Guess who's now the highest rated Dman in the draft.
He's simply the microphone a lot of scouts use to throw off the competition.
I also think when it's all said and done Serg will be top Dman drafted, because he's 6'3 without a smooth skating stride, creative puck handling, and a cannon from the point. His game is just so sick
He has lots of great tools but the knocks I have on him is his first-step quickness needs to improve, his "calmness" can lead to turnovers when the pace is ramped up (does he think the game fast enough?), and consistency of effort isn't there yet. Lots to like, but these are reasons why he's not a perfect player.
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Dammit Jim!
There is some Bartkowski in his game. Given his development path, I think that can be coached out of him. Clearly an elite athlete with a great passuon for the game. He could be a very solid top pairing D.
you said it yourself. mackenzie reports what nhl scouts tell him. different scouts see different players...you guessed it...differently. so mackenzie is not supposed to report what he's being told?
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Those statements can both coexist? Juolevi is the top defenseman; some scouts are suggesting Sergachyov is pushing him for it. I don't see what's contradictory about that... Not to mention if it was Bob who said he thought Juolevi was the top d-man then the statements are even less contradictory.
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Well yeah, but this feels more like he's trying to create hype or something. Why else would you tweet out that Juolevi is the front runner and then only a few days later say that many have Sergachyov as the top defenseman? You couldn't have included those two things in the same tweet, or maybe written a piece on it instead? I mean, for all we know he could tweet out that Chychrun is considered the best d-man two days from now. What will anyone have gained by that? Everyone already knows its a close race between Chychrun, Juolevi and Sergachyov. Him saying that some scouts have Juolevi first and others Sergachyov first doesn't really tell me anything or make me any wiser. Again, feels just like he's trying to create hype more than anything.
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Russian factor only really affects prospects based in Russia because of the lack of a transfer agreement and it being harder to do in-depth scouting. People might say it hurts Grigorenko's stock, but that had many weird factors at play (most famously a belief he was an age cheat). For example, I don't think being Russian impacted where Provorov went last year.
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In this context yes. I don't think he talked to 30 scouts in the league. Lets say he talked to 10-12 scouts and a few of them, maybe 3-4, had Sergachyov as the top defenseman. That's many.
Either way, pointless discussion. Just thought it was odd to tweet that out when he tweeted basically the exact same thing about Juolevi just a couple of days / a week earlier.
Just happy Serg is getting some recognition.
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how not? It didn't seem to affect Yakupov, Kulikov, Burmistrov, or Provorov in recent drafts, it did hurt Cherapanov, Tarasenko, Kuznetsov, Buchnevich and Kucherov. Not making a judgement call on what develops players better, but the Russian factor doesn't appear to damage players draft positions if they are CHL based, and it seems to be less of a factor now because certain teams are comfortable gambling on Russian based players (Dallas, Washington and Tampa). Now some players stocks have crashed in the CHL (Kabanov), but I wouldn't attribute why he fell in the draft to being Russian.
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Russian factor is not only about crossing the pond or not, but also about possibility of leaving to Russia after the ELC. That's why Rusian CHL-ers whose upside is being questioned (and therefore flight risk is higher) are also subject to Russian factor (Barbashev is the most notable example of this kind of case, also I'd say Korostelev too). Still I don't think Sergachyov will fall under this case.
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