Matvei Michkov: 9 points in first 8 NHL games

[HabzSauce]

This one is going to haunt a lot of teams for a long time. I really wish we would have drafted him when we had the chance.

Yup they dun goofed. Reinbacher has to become a stud to make this worth it

 

[HeadLiceHatty]

Not meaningless, just less impressive than 5-on-5

Do you watch the 5v5 plays he creates? Highly, highly doubtful, he’s playing with 3rd/4th line plugs that don’t covert what he creates. But go off bro lol. And it’s not like he’s riding someone’s coattails on the PP, the PP runs through him already, he was the straw stirring the drink on the PP within 10 games of his NHL career.

 

[Kshahdoo]

These 2 things don't exactly square up in that Michkov is playing with some decent players on the PP and sometimes ES as well.

Also everyone is getting too touchy on an obvious thing in that Michkov does have more PPP than ESP and sure they all count but ESP are harder to come by and might be more indicative of offensive value than PPP.

Those decent players were the worst PP team in previous seasons, though, weren't they? This season they are 21st. The only difference between seasons is Michkov.

 

[Redpath]

If the go-to criticism of a 19 year old rookie is that his glut of point production is somehow cheapened by the way he's scoring, I'd take that as a pretty good sign.

 

[JPT]

Not enough backhand goals through the 4 hole, tbh

 

[I Hate Philadelphia]

Look at my username and realize how hard this is for me to admit.

This kid is legit.

 

[AD1066]

Those decent players were the worst PP team in previous seasons, though, weren't they? This season they are 21st. The only difference between seasons is Michkov.

Good point. League-worst PP last year, by almost a full 3%. Converted at a 12.2% rate while the next-worst team was 15.1%.

We're only 20 games in, but they're up to 17.7% so far. Perhaps it's coaching, perhaps regression to the mean, but I'd be hard-pressed to believe that Michkov's vision hasn't made a difference as well.

 

[Kshahdoo]

Good point. League-worst PP last year, by almost a full 3%. Converted at a 12.2% rate while the next-worst team was 15.1%.

We're only 20 games in, but they're up to 17.7% so far. Perhaps it's coaching, perhaps regression to the mean, but I'd be hard-pressed to believe that Michkov's vision hasn't made a difference as well.

It's not just vision, his free roaming role sometimes obviously confuses opponents. You can say that role couldn't be implemented without coach's decision, but Michkov played the same way on Sochi's PP as well.