LD Yegor Rykov - Severstal Cherepovets, KHL (2016, 132nd, NJD; traded to NYR)
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His KHL contract is up after this season so he could sign his ELC in April but I doubt they will burn a year and he'll probably start in Hartford to end the season on an ATO
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This is refreshing to see after the garbage he was dealing with to begin the season. Hopefully he becomes a contributing player for the Rangers.
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Played over 25 minutes today.
I haven't watched any of his games recently, but it looks like he's not scoring that many points. He's not an offensive defensemen, but I'd expect slightly better point production. Does anyone know if he's been taken off the PP? His SH% is low, as well.
Either way, he's still playing big minutes under a coach who was one of the best defensemen of his generation. Almost always over 20 minutes per game for Rykov, so if Zubov is playing him those minutes, he must be doing pretty well.
I haven't watched any of his games recently, but it looks like he's not scoring that many points. He's not an offensive defensemen, but I'd expect slightly better point production. Does anyone know if he's been taken off the PP? His SH% is low, as well.
Either way, he's still playing big minutes under a coach who was one of the best defensemen of his generation. Almost always over 20 minutes per game for Rykov, so if Zubov is playing him those minutes, he must be doing pretty well.
Pavel Buchnevich
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He played a career high 26:27 yesterday. He's getting big minutes for a playoff team. This trade has been very good for his development. Thats considering Sochi was icing 7D, and teams usually play 7 in the KHL.
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Saving it for when he comes over next year and plays the Devils.
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I don't know if this is some kind of defense mechanism, but that was an honest question.
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There is usually around 15 U24 players with 10+ points. Rykov scored 14 last year as well. Usually, these guys break out around the age of 22-23 (Kiselevich, Ozhiganov, Zaitsev, Chudinov, etc.) but considering his career trajectory thus far Rykov is having a really bad season.
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“Really bad season” offensively it’s true at least
He’s not an offensive dman though
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He is as offensive as Russian Ds get nowadays. He has scored at every level as well thus far: be it WJC, MHL, VHL or even KHL. 14 points as a 20-year-old playing 12 minutes per game was a great result.
You have to consider the situation. He was playing for a team with an abundance of offensive firepower. SKA asks their Ds to be responsible at their own end, they don’t need them to go forward and take chances.
Look at what happened to Chudinov and Yakovlev.
Look at what happened to Chudinov and Yakovlev.
Pavel Buchnevich
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Has anyone here watched these games? I asked this question a couple of posts up because I'm curious to know if anyone knows the answer.
We can all speculate. Does he still play the PP? He has a very low SH%. Besides, I've seen him play many times, a couple earlier this season, and I think he has decent offensive potential. He's not an offensive defensemen, but I think he's a good passer who can make plays at the blue line and he has shown an aggressive approach to jumping up into the play from the backend. I'd worry a lot more about the points if he was projected to be Erik Karlsson. He's not. There is probably a good explanation for the lack of points that none of us know due to not watching these games. The fact that he's playing so much for a pretty good KHL team after SKA sent him to the minors is very good.
We can all speculate. Does he still play the PP? He has a very low SH%. Besides, I've seen him play many times, a couple earlier this season, and I think he has decent offensive potential. He's not an offensive defensemen, but I think he's a good passer who can make plays at the blue line and he has shown an aggressive approach to jumping up into the play from the backend. I'd worry a lot more about the points if he was projected to be Erik Karlsson. He's not. There is probably a good explanation for the lack of points that none of us know due to not watching these games. The fact that he's playing so much for a pretty good KHL team after SKA sent him to the minors is very good.
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He's picked up the scoring. He has assists in back to back games. I watched some of the game today, although I missed the assist.
He's not on the PP, so that might explain the lack of points. He was playing PK, which is good. He looked pretty good defensively. No problems with his defense other than occasionally he'll pinch too much and his teammates will lose the puck, which leaves him stranded up ice. Thats more of a team problem though as someone should be covering when he does that.
He has very good composure with the puck. I don't really understand why he's not playing the PP more. He's the best defensemen they have at handling the puck. He had this really creative Dahlin-type of pass to himself today where he had Tkachyov rushing at him with him controlling the puck at the point and he flipped it off the boards to himself. It ended up working. Very smart play.
He's done well from what I've watched this season. He looked slightly naive earlier in the season defensively, but nothing too bad and he's improved from what I saw earlier in the season on the defensive end. Offensively, I like what I see. Very good movement in the offensive zone. Always looking to get himself open for a pass when he doesn't have the puck. He's also very good at moving the puck in all zones and I like his skating. Not the flashiest player, but pretty good in all aspects.
He's not on the PP, so that might explain the lack of points. He was playing PK, which is good. He looked pretty good defensively. No problems with his defense other than occasionally he'll pinch too much and his teammates will lose the puck, which leaves him stranded up ice. Thats more of a team problem though as someone should be covering when he does that.
He has very good composure with the puck. I don't really understand why he's not playing the PP more. He's the best defensemen they have at handling the puck. He had this really creative Dahlin-type of pass to himself today where he had Tkachyov rushing at him with him controlling the puck at the point and he flipped it off the boards to himself. It ended up working. Very smart play.
He's done well from what I've watched this season. He looked slightly naive earlier in the season defensively, but nothing too bad and he's improved from what I saw earlier in the season on the defensive end. Offensively, I like what I see. Very good movement in the offensive zone. Always looking to get himself open for a pass when he doesn't have the puck. He's also very good at moving the puck in all zones and I like his skating. Not the flashiest player, but pretty good in all aspects.
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He only got removed from it once Paigin arrived, fairly recently.
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Was he? I remember he was on it earlier in the season. I asked recently if anyone knew if he was still playing the PP, and no one responded, so I assumed no one knew. If you've watched Sochi recently, I'll take your word for that.
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It was Auvitu - Jokipakka then Rykov - Jokipakka and Paigin - Jokipakka now.
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His ceiling is Orlov. He could already take regular shifts in the NHL, so his floor is probably a bottom pairing guy.
