What's really cringy is thinking you have to be "a hater" to not be on board with unrealistic 80-point rookie season scenarios, or to not entertain fantasy conspiracy theories about why Michkov wasn't drafted sooner. Also cringy is for Michkov's fan club to constantly obsess over the Canadiens' decision to pass on that guy while conveniently forgetting that plenty of team passed on him, including one that drafted.... some Russian guy nobody is talking about.
To answer your question: Our right side on D is really weak, and unfortunately, none of our players really grabbed that opportunity to win a permanent spot on that side last season. I don't really have any expectations for Reinbacher this season. I guess he might get the odd NHL call up, especially after the trade deadline. But it looks like we will use our left D depth to fill spots on the right side once more. I hope one of Barron, Mailloux or Reinbacher will surprise me with more hunger and poise.
What are you doing here? You are not a prospect board regular, just visit Michkov thread. He isnt mtl prospect.
So no. 50-70 points is very realistical outcome for Michkov. 80? On my taste its too much but it is not drammatical at all.
But you are here to troll people with fan club posts without any real things to implement into discussion. "Michkov fans, conspiracy" isnt a great thing to come with to the thread.
You are not the first one mtl fan who is here just for creating dirt. So do you really think that people will adequately react? Because there are no conspiracy. First four teams wanted to draft centers, Arizona were afraid to draft Michkov and he wasnt really happy to be drafted by Arizona, but there were no bad word from him about mtl. He was interviewed.
The only reason why he wasnt drafted by Mtl is... mtl stupidity. It is obvious and clear. Its not conspiracy. Conspiracy is his "character" and other stuff. Stupidity of mtl management is clear. Its okay to admit it. They were afraid of Russian with three years deal in KHL, war was not so ordinary thing like it is now, Bobrov was famous for his "scouting" in Rangers. Mtl could have one of the best or even potentially the absolutely best top-6 in the league. But their RD side "was weak". Okay, I congratulate you with better right side of defense. Its truth that now its better potentially. Pick is awful still. And poor Reinbacher will be bashed by some fans because of that idiotic decision of Hughes.
There are no real "Michkov fan club". Mostly its people who is cheer for him are people from different fan bases(flyers fans are not majority here at all) who just love talented players, who is talking about prospects a lot, who is watching games outside NHL. But after mtl decision tonns of low iq fans decided to sh1t on player. Smart people and good people dont like it. Look at this discussion. Smith or Simashev doesnt look like potentially better players, but discussion isnt about them mostly(like you mentioned). Its because Utah and Sharks fans dont try to waste their time to write fairy tales about Michkov.