Prospect Info: Rangers Prospects Thread (Player Stats/Info in Post #1; Updated 6.27.19)

[Harbour Dog]

OK. A North American myth then

Fair enough.

What sort of stereotypes would people sling in Europe about Russian players?

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

Fair enough.

What sort of stereotypes would people sling in Europe about Russian players?

Russians have more in common with other European countries when it comes to hockey. We don't really refer to other countries as "soft" or "lazy" in hockey.

 

[Irishguy42]

Oh, so this is what we're doing today in multiple threads? We're getting #madonline about cultural things?

 

[DutchNYR]

Fair enough.

What sort of stereotypes would people sling in Europe about Russian players?

Technical, great passers and better at math than Americans.

 

[Harbour Dog]

Russians have more in common with other European countries when it comes to hockey. We don't really refer to other countries as "soft" or "lazy" in hockey.

Doesn't have to be negative. I know "skilled" is a word that you hear tied to Russian players in the NHL more than you would a player from another nation.

I don't have the experience of living in such a tight-knit conglomerate of countries, so it's difficult for me to grasp that there aren't enduring stereotypes about people who are "different".

 

[DutchNYR]

Doesn't have to be negative. I know "skilled" is a word that you hear tied to Russian players in the NHL more than you would a player from another nation.

I don't have the experience of living in such a tight-knit conglomerate of countries, so it's difficult for me to grasp that there aren't enduring stereotypes about people who are "different".

I could honestly give you stereotypes of about every nation on this continent. Bar Liechtenstein that is, but that’s no one has been able to find it on a map yet.

Anyhow, I think that because the NHL uses different rules than European leagues do - European hockey nations have more ‘similar’ styles. Just a different look at hockey, I guess.

 

[Edge]

A lot of the old stereotypes about Russian hockey players weren't because they were Russian, it was how the older system traditionally trained players and style differences for the time.

With time, and the exchange of ideas and approaches, it really doesn't apply any more.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

A lot of the old stereotypes about Russian hockey players weren't because they were Russian, it was how the older system traditionally trained players and style differences for the time.

With time, and the exchange of ideas and approaches, it really doesn't apply any more.

Agreed. There's still a bit of a difference in terms of style. NA style is more about territory and power, while the EU style is more about possession and skill but over the years both have become so intertwined that we are now left with 2 hybrids

 

[Profet]

I had always heard that hockey sticks were ill made and/or expensive in Russia, so you saw a lot less slap shots and far more wrist shots... while cheap sticks were prevalent in NA so slap shots were much more common.

This was obviously USSR days.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Technical, great passers and better at math than Americans.

That's literally every other country.

 

[DutchNYR]

That's literally every other country.

Haha, I was referring to this beauty

 

[Edge]

Haha, I was referring to this beauty

That video perfectly captures his personality.

 

[nyr2k2]

Bryz is such a treasure.

 

[RangerBoy]

Love the sound of the puck hitting the back of the net. The big thud.

 

[redwhiteandblue]

Man, beat him kind of easily looked like. I'm going to take that as a pro-Krava thing.

 

[GunkWinger]

I loved the way he looked back at Shesty to c if there was a reaction.

 

[RangerBoy]

I loved the way he looked back at Shesty to c if there was a reaction.

Kravstov is telling him there’s more from where that came from.

 

[Bluenote13]

Goalie wasnt set, that clip cuts in right after the save Shesty just made a second before.

 

[redwhiteandblue]

Goalie wasnt set, that clip cuts in right after the save Shesty just made a second before.

Makes sense because he looked 'out of his league', as hyperbolic as that is, for just a second. I felt like after everything I would have seen out of him that despite Vitali's skill he would have made more of an attempt haha.

 

[cwede]

Kravstov is telling him there’s more from where that came from.

yeah, like Zucc and Hank 8^)

 

[Ghost of jas]

Kravstov is telling him there’s more from where that came from.

He'll be here all camp.

 

[Clown Fiesta]

Goalie wasnt set, that clip cuts in right after the save Shesty just made a second before.

He’s more or less set, a little behind the shooter though. If he were a little further out he probably stops it. Doesn’t look like he put 100% into that one, he’s probably taken a dozen shots at that point.

 

[Levitate]

He’s more or less set, a little behind the shooter though. If he were a little further out he probably stops it. Doesn’t look like he put 100% into that one, he’s probably taken a dozen shots at that point.

yeah I was gonna say less "not set" and more "taking warmup shots rather than going 100% to make saves"

 

[Good Intentions]

I can't make it to the scrimmage for tomorrow - but I will for Thursday. Hope to have some commentary and video to share.

This past spring, THN produced a 'Top 100 Prospects list' which had Makar at 1, followed by Quinn Hughes, Glass, Necas, Kravtsov (5), Denisenko, Zadina, Kaprizov, Hayton, Dobson, Brannstrom, Boqvist, Bouchard...

(Fox 30, Lias 34, Shesterkin 37, K'Andre 62).

Will Hughes and Kakko slide into 1-2 slots on the next update? Feels like 7 in the top 70.

 

[Leetch3]

I can't make it to the scrimmage for tomorrow - but I will for Thursday. Hope to have some commentary and video to share.

This past spring, THN produced a 'Top 100 Prospects list' which had Makar at 1, followed by Quinn Hughes, Glass, Necas, Kravtsov (5), Denisenko, Zadina, Kaprizov, Hayton, Dobson, Brannstrom, Boqvist, Bouchard...

(Fox 30, Lias 34, Shesterkin 37, K'Andre 62).

Will Hughes and Kakko slide into 1-2 slots on the next update? Feels like 7 in the top 70.

they will definitely go to 1-2, shiny new toy the most recent draft class always gets rated highly by them