I didn't realize this was the situation. They can't afford to risk him going to Russia. For better or for worse, they need to keep him in Buffalo. He's not quite ready, but I don't think it will hinder his development ultimately, and the Sabres are going to suck this year anyway, so who cares?
LD Nikita Zadorov (2013, 16th, BUF; traded to COL)
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tsujimoto74
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Well that certainly explains a lot. Still don't know why he can't get a game or 2 in. There's no way he can be worse than Benoit or Meszaros, right?
Calm the hell down....and read the article. Zadorov can't do anything right now other then refuse to go to the KHL. Zadorov's immediate future will be decided by Buffalo and St. Petersburg and nobody else.
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I read the article.
Perhaps you should read about sarcasm. I thought purposely using the phrase "we gonna" would have been a giveaway...
I just don't think he can have contract with any KHL team. And I don't know how St. Petersberg can own rights. Zadorov was drafted on the KHL draft 2012 by CSKA Moscow. Maybe later the rights was traded to he SKA St. Petersburg, but i don't have any info about it.
Nope. If SKA agrees to terminate his contract then he can be loaned to Europe or he can be sent down to AHL.
kp61c
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and why'd they want to terminate his contract?
i don't understand all this drama. send him down to juniors already
This is literally out of nowhere. Must be a mistake on the author's side, I can't imagine a trade like that being unnoticed.
stokes84
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Yeah, this is a case where the CHL-NHL rules are clearly screwing a player. They should make exceptions that would let him play in the AHL in situations like this
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or to stay at home until the guy is NHL ready. Stupid kids.
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My point is that it is better to be drafted to NHL from non-CHL club... it worked for Yakimov for example - the same draft year as Zadorov. Yakimov plays AHL this season, Zadorov could not due to CHL-NHL agreement. If Zadorov was drafted outside CHL, he could play AHL this season.
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According to that article, he can NOT be sent to the OHL since his KHL team controls the situation.
Peter25
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Buffalo doesn't want to do that. Is there any official confirmation that SKA owns his rights, not CSKA?
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I think it's an author error. CSKA drafted Zadorov in the 2012 KHL junior draft, and if Zadorov's rights were traded to SKA, I'd assume there would have been some sort of press release, which I can't seem to find either, hence my error conclusion here. FWIW, the LFP noted his KHL club as CSKA a few weeks ago:
tsujimoto74
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Yeah, no. Buffalo isn't sending the kid to the KHL. If they didn't think that idea was utterly terrible, they would've done it already. Nobody wants him to lose precious development time sitting on the bench in Buffalo, but they obviously want him playing in Ruissia even less.
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Screws his draft stock up. Yakimov was a surefire 2nd rounder maybe even late 1st but fell to third round due to KHL factor. Same thing happened to tarasenko and kuznetov. Zadorov probably goes 20th or around there if so.
Nope, Zadorov would not have went in the first round had he stayed in Russia, probably not secound round either.
Bergman is one, but I think everyone else has been released by the Knights.
Miromanov to USHL apparently
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showpost.php?p=90546141&postcount=607
And the 2 imports last year have been released as well.
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Who the heck cares when a player is drafted? What matters how a player develops. Pavel Datsyuk was a late rounder and so was Sergei Zubov and Nicklas Lidström.
The important thing is NOT to ruin a player's career in Canadian juniors just to "raise his draft stock".
Peter25
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Why do they want him playing in Russia "even less" than him not playing at all?
Moving to Canadian juniors was terrible for Zadorov's development. Do they want to finish off his hockey career for good now?
