If you mean me, then I'm here, but I also wrote that things will be more clear no early than two weeks into the season. I mean, currently SKA roster has 20 forwards and you can fit pretty much only 12 full-time forwards into the lineup, obviously Michkov will miss some games with that kind of player logjam.
the best case scenario is its just old school hockey and roterberg is putting his trust in his vets until a rookie really steals the show and demidov and michkov just alternate. worst case scenario its an army affiliated team and rotenberg has orders from the top brass
The even more concerning thing though is Rotenberg seems to clearly favor Demidov
ya it seemed like it starting with the first game in the Puchkov tournament. im gonna ride out the next few weeks and see what happens, it could all be a nothing burger. they may have a plan and have already talked to michkov, could just be giving Demidov an extended look and Rotenberg doesnt want both of them playing every night. unless theres some Kremlin Gremlins fkin around in the big red machine right now maybe we're just being impatient lol
Hmm, strange, when I said that Rotenberg might be a problem it was laughed off by russian homers. No reason for concern at all
Many scouts have said Demidov may be the better prospect. One would think they'd play the 18 year old whose under contract for three years over the 17 though. This was a huge factor in why the Habs passed on Michkov. Even having a former SKA head scout and head of player development whose dad still works for SKA didn't give them any hope they could control his development.
Rotenberg family is one of the few families in Russia influential enough to not care about the army. His father(?) or uncle is one of the closest Putin friends. So he can do as he pleases and he does not care about the press, GM, etc
that may or may not be true in today's russia, with everything going on with fedotov isnt rotenberg helping cska right now?
There are no army affiliated teams in the KHL.
rotenbergs are very close to putin. that's why this finnish citizen coaches the team, he wished to coach and so he got his wish
I think that's already been happening for some time.
Doesn't the Ivan Fedotov situation pretty much refute this? He signs with CSKA and when he wants to leave after that contract is up he gets conscripted into the army and forcibly moved to a military base for a year.
I have no dog in the fight as I like both cities but for the record the metro area of Philly is most definitely larger. And the 200k more urban in Montreal is more because of the sqm of the city. The urban density are within 500 of each other.
this is the downside of drafting him under contract so we just gotta ride it out. hes gonna get games in and hes gonna go balls to the wall when he does so Im gonna try not worry for the first couple weeks, ive been speculating and running through so many different scenarios I feel like im chasing pepe silvia now.
I agree on bottoming out for sure, but Rotenberg's decisions to me have no implications regarding Michkov's talent. SKA clearly have their heads up their arses right now
