Matvei Michkov: 9 points in first 8 NHL games

[bossram]

Michkov has two(!) 5v5 points.

That really shouldn't be cutting it for Calder talk. A lot of that is bad luck and should improve, but still...calling him a PP/3v3 merchant is accurate right now.

 

[MNRube]

Michkov has two(!) 5v5 points.

That really shouldn't be cutting it for Calder talk. A lot of that is bad luck and should improve, but still...calling him a PP/3v3 merchant is accurate right now.

Or, he’s already one of the best OT & PP weapons at 19 and once his ES on ice SH% normalizes, he will be a runaway winner.

 

[Rob Brown]

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.

It was more to do with his contract than the war. SKA St. Petersburg terminated his contract early.

 

[Leafshater67]

Michkov has two(!) 5v5 points.

That really shouldn't be cutting it for Calder talk. A lot of that is bad luck and should improve, but still...calling him a PP/3v3 merchant is accurate right now.

It’s not really that hard to win a Calder a lot of years. Barrett Jackman won one. Stankoven will be a tough guy to beat for that but so what. Michkov is a dynamic 19 year old rookie on a bottom feeder with Torts as coach.

Some fans always have the most unrealistic expectations.

 

[bossram]

Or, he’s already one of the best OT & PP weapons at 19 and once his ES on ice SH% normalizes, he will be a runaway winner.

I mean yeah, like I said already, a large degree of that is bad luck and the ES scoring will improve. I literally already said that.

That he currently has only two 5v5 points is a fact of reality though.

 

[Rob Brown]

It’s not really that hard to win a Calder a lot of years. Barrett Jackman won one. Stankoven will be a tough guy to beat for that but so what. Michkov is a dynamic 19 year old rookie on a bottom feeder with Torts as coach.

Some fans always have the most unrealistic expectations.

Michkov is still the favourite in terms of betting odds (currently -125 on FanDuel vs. +180 for Stankoven). It'll be one of the two in all likelihood but I don't think that Stankoven is any more likely than Michkov right now.