Wow. When character disput ended because it looks silly now, Michkov/Reinbacher disput ended because for obvious reasons that were obvious from the beginning, this thread is starting to face pts per minute disput about Michkov and Demidov. Both played different roles for different teams against different competition. Both are great, both will have different environment in NHL,.
If Demidov will produce more points or same amount of points or less points - they are different players in different circumstances. Hughes was historically stupid to not draft Michkov, he was very lucky to have opportunity to draft Demidov next year. Both should be second overall obviously, both were drafted lower because they are smallish wingers.
We can argue about how great both will be, Jackets still could not draft Michkov because of lack of centers - they had nothing. Ducks? Ducks don’t draft Russians from Russia, they don’t draft small players(look at their drafts in the first round in the last 20 years), it’s just is what it is. SJ? That was not a good decision. Mtl? Yeah, we are facing fans with Stockholm syndrome on every page. Arizona? Bad decision but they didn’t have any defensemen, there were rumors about them especially that Michkov doesn’t want to play for them. He said by himself he would play for them if they would draft him. Anyway still not a good decision.
We can focus on Michkov and his game for Flyers and move on from the draft day.
Of course we should learn something from it. What is the lesson? Draft BPA.
