BroadwayStorm
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He's been making some sick dominating plays in his last few games. Strong as hell on the puck. And niftier than he looks. Really good offensive player.
RW Pavel Buchnevich (2013, 75th, NYR)
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I don' think so
.Tarasenko
2009-10 Sibir Novosibirsk KHL 42 13 11 24
2010-11 Sibir Novosibirsk KHL 42 9 10 19
Buchnevich
2013-14 Severstal Cherepovets KHL 40 7 11 18
Not a big difference.
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He went 75 overall because of doubts as to whether he will come over. I still haven't seen much indication one way or the other.
Skinnyjimmy08
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Ya i was gonna ask if he has made any indications he is planning on coming to north america or not... Obviously I hope he does just cause he seems like he coud potentially be a future star but u never know... off to a great KHL season so far though.. wow
helicecopter
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Yeah, the same doubts were about every Russian young player. And now Tarasenko, Nichushkin, Kuznetsov are in NHL, and those who doubted doubt their own sanity because they didn't pick the guys earlier.
He's been over for the Rangers prospect camps and someone said he spent some time training in NJ as well (though I can't find confirmation on that). Can't know his mind but I suspect he'll want to give the NHL a shot. The big question would be whether he'd be OK with spending some time in the AHL if he doesn't make the team out of camp...could be a situation where he spends half a year there and comes up during the season, but I can understand if he didn't want to do that.
Depends a little on how the Rangers roster looks during training camp next season
Depends a little on how the Rangers roster looks during training camp next season
Looks like, I tried checking his player profile on the KHL site and that's what it says.
That's a little light but not horrible. Ideally he could put on some more, effective weight next summer if he's going to take a crack at the NHL
That's a little light but not horrible. Ideally he could put on some more, effective weight next summer if he's going to take a crack at the NHL
I always mentioned he was a top 10 talent offensively in his draft class and im glad hes proving it. If teams were more willing to take Russians then potential 4th line grinders later on, more would strike gold.
The defenseman on that play is Kurtis Foster. Which...doesn't make what he did any more impressive or anything but, well, Foster is a big guy and he did play in the NHL once upon a time
FLYLine27*
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He was named KHL forward of the week (4G - 2A - 6P in 3 games last week).
Kid is turning into a complete monster.
Kid is turning into a complete monster.
He's been around rangers camps, including the prospect camp right after the draft.
habsrule4eva3089
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He has mentioned in an interview the NHL is his goal, so New York fans should be seeing him once his contract is done if I were to estimate.
This hilarity of NHL clubs drafting players later because they're worried if they're actually going to come over is just plain stupid. Most if not all Russian kids all strive for the NHL and just because they don't want to waste their time playing in the ahl and play in a superior league shouldn't detriment their draft status.
This hilarity of NHL clubs drafting players later because they're worried if they're actually going to come over is just plain stupid. Most if not all Russian kids all strive for the NHL and just because they don't want to waste their time playing in the ahl and play in a superior league shouldn't detriment their draft status.
Basically the Rangers ended up with 2 players in the third round that would be drafted in the first round if that draft was done over. Duclair and Buchnevich would both be first round picks. Which brings up the question. What the heck were the scouts of other teams thinking?
I am looking at the kids NYR has in camp right now, the College kids led by Skjei, and Buchnevich -- NYR could end up as being seen as having a real monster farm when people look back at it. I wouldn't be suprised if "this" farm has 6-10 NHLers in it covering almost the whole scale (cept that real superstar forward that we have like 20 of in this league).
(in no real order)
Buch
Duclair
Hayes
Fast
Haggerty
Lindberg
Kristo
Skjei
McIlrath
Allen/Zamorsky/Bodie
Halversson
The Russian goalie (Shesheheshhstorkin (sp?))
If this happen people will look at the prospect rankings from "now" and shake their heads lol, 29-30th overall?
DatsyukToZetterberg
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I really wanted the Wings to take him with either of their 2nds. I'm happy with Little Bert and the other guy but Buch looks like a gem.
Duclair had a disappointing draft year as I recall because he was trying to come back from an ankle injury too early and was suspended by the team for a few games for some vague reason. I recall someone saying it wasn't a huge deal but those things always awake whispers of "maturity problems and off ice issues!".
Once healthy and ready to go after that he tore it up.
Buchnevich fell because he's Russian and there was some talk his off ice work ethic was lacking (while at the same time saying he worked hard on the ice). So far he's shown that he wants to come to the NHL and has improved his off ice work.
When Seguin was in Boston, they kept talking about his "work ethic problems". But then he moved to Dallas and all problems magically disappeared.
I bet most of such talks are ways to hide someone's incompetence.
I bet most of such talks are ways to hide someone's incompetence.
Buch's coach said something. I think part of it was just a Russian coach criticizing a player and another part of it was kind of lost in the translation IIRC. I think I saw somewhere that they were using him to kill penalties this year.
