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Confirmed Trade: [NSH/VGK] Grigori Denisenko for future considerations

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Was just thinking about this cat last week. I think this is his last season to be considered a "development" player in the NHL. I assume he ends up back in Russia next year. Based on his AHL production last year, you'd expect him to be a top KHLer.
 
kerrabria said:
Was just thinking about this cat last week. I think this is his last season to be considered a "development" player in the NHL. I assume he ends up back in Russia next year. Based on his AHL production last year, you'd expect him to be a top KHLer.
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Yes, he passed the 260 games (AHL+KHL+NHL) threshold this season, so next year he would count as one of the 6 AHL vets.
 
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Alright Vegas now has 3 rosters spots open to make 50, 2 guys likely on LTIR to finish the season. Place your bets...
 
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Szechwan said:
Wasn't this guy looked at as a top prospect for the Cats not long ago?
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Yeah, he was 15th OA in 2018. Quintessential boom or bust forward. He was said to have every tool--good skater, decent size, unreal hands, great playmaking vision, goal scoring, highly physical, confidence, and a great personality. But was also said to be a purely raw talent who was years away from NHL hockey.

In his Draft+1 year, he lit up the WJC, and Craig Button listed him as like the second best prospect in the world. I think the COVID season did him in. Florida was one of the few teams whose AHL affiliate fully canceled the season, so Denisenko spent like all his time on the taxi squad and occasionally got games with Syracuse. He needed North American ice time, but he never got it.
 
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SEALBound said:
Nashville is so weird. Why trade Parssinen only to trade for Denisenko?
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Parssinen is an NHL player. He still isn't really getting his best look in Colorado, but he's an NHL player.

Denisenko is NOT an NHL player. This is a a case of the Predators (not even Barry Trotz - the AHL GM Scott Nichol) doing everything in their power to ensure that the Milwaukee Admirals have a deep and balanced roster for a Calder Cup run this season. They picked up Mark Friedman for this purpose. They signed Anders Bjork and Chase De Leo. The AHL team is trying to make a run and make up for a few promotions/losses/injuries (Svechkov, Blankenburg, Hinostroza), by picking up any AHL-level talent if it doesn't cost anything.

Hopefully Denisenko does something for Milwaukee. Whether he does or doesn't isn't really relevant for him as an NHL prospect? That ship has sailed. He's going back to the KHL next season regardless.
 
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More filler for Milwaukee. Cant help but feel Trotz is gonna move a couple NHL players that require us to make a couple callups. This keeps us from completely destroying our AHL depth.
 
herzausstein said:
More filler for Milwaukee. Cant help but feel Trotz is gonna move a couple NHL players that require us to make a couple callups. This keeps us from completely destroying our AHL depth.
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One can hope... :crossfing

Denisenko is probably a little cut above "filler" level for the AHL. I will believe Trotz trades his NHL garbage when I see it... the news that Lauzon is out injured for the season hurts. If he can't/won't move anybody else, well... :help:
 
kerrabria said:
Yeah, he was 15th OA in 2018. Quintessential boom or bust forward. He was said to have every tool--good skater, decent size, unreal hands, great playmaking vision, goal scoring, highly physical, confidence, and a great personality. But was also said to be a purely raw talent who was years away from NHL hockey.

In his Draft+1 year, he lit up the WJC, and Craig Button listed him as like the second best prospect in the world. I think the COVID season did him in. Florida was one of the few teams whose AHL affiliate fully canceled the season, so Denisenko spent like all his time on the taxi squad and occasionally got games with Syracuse. He needed North American ice time, but he never got it.
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He had 150+ AHL games total in the last 3 seasons. I guess if he was NHL material, he already would've carved a role somewhere regardless. Samoskevich was playing better in his first games this season than Denisenko ever showed.
 
I understand where the thinking on Denisenko came from. On draft day, I picked him in the 1st round in my FHL also. The thing is, he showed a lot of "grit" and energy that isn't necessarily always seen in Russian prospects, and it was a pretty terrible draft after the top-10. So I get why Florida took the chance. He's a bit like Barbashev where he always hustles and tries to make himself noticed. But at the end of the day, he couldn't get on the scoreboard enough.

But we're enough years into the experiment now that he's 24-going-on-25 that we know how this story ends. He's on 4th-and-down. He'll play out the playoffs for Milwaukee and go to the KHL next season. Good try. Obviously you want more from a #15 OA pick. But that's where he topped out. It is what is is. He'll be a respectable KHL player next year. :dunno:
 
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