What does anything of this has to do with canadian prospects? They can fly to the Moon if they want. I don't care. You are bringing nothing but canadian bias to the table.
I'll try to bring my contributions up to your standard...wait already have as that bar is so low.
Part of it is in that very post. The canadian ignorance calling the KHL weird. If you don't know or understand how something works it's "weird" and wrong to you. Just the usual intolerant inability to make an effort to understand a bigger diverse world. Even in something so insignificant as hockey.
It's not Canadian ignorance, the NHL draft is scouting for future NHLers and it's harder for any scouts anywhere to determine how players are doing with little ice time in the KHL and really large roster swings, therefore different lineups and variables to account for.
If you watch any prospect and one of them players 3 different levels with 20 or 30 different lineups and revolving opponent lineups versus another prospect with more stable lineup and opponents that scout doesn't have to try to account for those variables.
Take these 3 prospects for instance.
Savoie, Yurov and Miroshnichenko who are all top talents in thsi years draft.
Scouting for skillsets is easy enough but how it's going to translate in game to the nHL is what scouts really need to get right.
Savoie playes in a tradionl feeder to the NHL, scouts have some basis point to equate draft year production to skillset to possible NHL projection with Savoie.
Yurov is playing in the KHL exclusively this year with little ice time and zero production on a more varied lineup and oppostion lineup than Savoie is so that's an additional variable for the scout to account for and more possible risk as well.
Miroshnichenko is playing in the VHL and one game in the MHL, in the VHL the vareity of lineup and ages of the players are also now another variable.
Now scouts have to project on different variables here once again between him and Yurov then another guy like Savoie in a more traditional and stable development arena.
This isn't ignorance or Canadian bias or any of that other garbage you are continually throwing out there, it's reality for NHL prospects.
NHL teams don't care at all where their players come from, when drafting they are playing an odds game or percentage game based on reality.
If NA scouts are too lazy or incapable of doing their job, no matter in which league and under which circumstances you should lay you canadian bias aside and acknowledge it. I know we here in Russia are walking backwards and the gravity constant is different for Russia because Putin and communism and reasons
Someone is living in your head rent free comrade.
