It's a bit funny how dirt cheap it is to buy his contract out and yet there's nothing you can do about. Especially if you are the gm of a bottom-dweller whose job is on the line and you need an impactful player now. If he lives up to the hype, 3 years of Michkov flushed down the toilet will seem like an eternity.
That’s not to say Bédard has a bad shot, HE DOESNT. It may even be Bedard’s best attribute but that’s a testament to how good Michkov’s shot is.
He’s a great skater, as is Bedard. They’re just not McDavid level skaters, who is arguably the best skater ever.
Michkov has an abolute laser of a wrist shot, hard, fast, accurate. He in fact sort of already has his signature goal on PP mimicing Ovechkin. Only in Michkov's case it's a wrister through traffic from the right circle that absolutely threatens to rip the netting. He so far scored one of those in each of the Hlinka-Gretzky games.
I'd agree with this. It seems like Michkov uses an insanely quick release and accuracy to find the back of the net, whereas Bedard relies on changing the shooting angle in his release and power. Stylistically I think Bedard shoots a lot like Matthews and I'm trying to decide who Michkov shoots like. Maybe Kovalchuk or Kessel? Someone who can shoot off the stickhandle well.
You know he was much younger than his opponents ...
