Matvei Michkov: 9 points in first 8 NHL games
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Acallabeth
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No sarcasm I guess, because Michkov was pretty good indeed.
Philadelphia looked godawful though. Will be frontrunners for #1 pick at this rate.
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Strangle
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No, I’m not even saying he’s necessarily the better player today. But I think by the ends of their careers it’ll be clear michkov had been the better player
There is another Russian kid coming up soon who also seems to be absolutely ridiculously good
Yeah maybe. It’s really hard to tell much yet though. I suspect they’ll be similar when it’s all said and done.
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Sounds like a similar situation to Bedard last year.
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He’s been stapled to Konecny who’s a first line caliber player
Wow Michkov 1 goal and 2 assists in 13 games even strength....well i guess being a pp specialist is not that bad.
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They’ve broken Konecny and Michkov up multiple times, largely because both play RW.
I feel both bedard and michkov have produced exceptional well to start considering both are playing on two of the worse offensive minded teams in the nhl.
4.76% on ice shooting percentage and a 25% IPP at 5v5. Both of those are unsustainably low.
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2g, 1a, +3 in his two games since being scratched. Looks like he has responded well. And the Flyers have gotten 7 out of a possible 8 points in the 4 games beginning with Michkov’s scratch, although they were lucky to win last night. Michkov has had Anthony Richard on his LW and Poehling and Frost as his centers the past two games.
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So comical reading the takes in here, keep it up folks !!
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And he was the first star in both of these games too. He is, undeniably, a game breaker. Let’s see if he becomes more consistent.
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Torts put him on a line with a couple of plugs last night and it was really not working, but finally started shuffling things in the third period.
Michkov needs to play with skilled guys, otherwise its such a waste for everyone involved.
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The people whining about Torts scratching a young kid to get some pressure off of the kid have since moved on to a thread kvetching about Torts wearing a hoodie. It's possible Torta isn't the stooge some make him out to be
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I think history will be confused as to why he only went 7th overall. At the time there was concern of him staying in Russia, which looks really silly with him already playing in the NHL in his D+2. No offense to those guys, but players like David Reinbacher and Dmitry Simashev look like straight up... "who?" in comparison. It's not like Michkov was an unknown player before the Draft.
Kuch went 58'th overall despite putting great numbers in juniors. Sometimes great players fall in draft for unknown reasons.
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Kucherov was not that well known, imo. Before the U18s that he lit up, I wouldn't be shocked if many NHL scouts had never heard of him.
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Tkachuk, Oettinger, Michkov moves the Habs progress along quite a bit.
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The historical context will be easy to find for anybody that looks. There was a literal war in his home country that made teams worry they might not be able to get him over. Philly rolled the dice and it worked out for them. They were one looney Putin dictate away from being wrong.
This isn't unknown reasons though, it was just the "Russia factor" never should have slipped to Philly
