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RW Vitaly Kravtsov - Traktor Chelyabinsk, KHL (2018, 9th, NYR)

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The Crypto Guy said:
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What's the point in looking at plays like this?

Don't you all know that Nail Yakupov scored goals like this and he turned out to be a bust!? :sarcasm:

And how can you show this when Kravtsov does it when you know Kuznetsov didn't do it in this game!!!!?

Jesus. What an embarrassment that one dude was to read last page
 
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He is still a boy. KHL goalies are very good, he will not beat them on straight shots. If he puts up 20 points this year that would be awesome. Come over next year with Shestyorkin and hang out with Buchnevich and Kreider.
 
Loved the pick at the time and will be following his career closely. He'll be on russia's WJC team right?? would love to see him live
 
CanuckCity said:
Loved the pick at the time and will be following his career closely. He'll be on russia's WJC team right?? would love to see him live
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He captained the u20 team in Hodonin 2 weeks ago and the players were following him in everything. Warmups, they looked to him, walking from the park to the arena, they followed him. He's the leader of that team. He will be the first player on the roster when the coaches get to put the team together.
 
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Amazing Kreiderman said:
He captained the u20 team in Hodonin 2 weeks ago and the players were following him in everything. Warmups, they looked to him, walking from the park to the arena, they followed him. He's the leader of that team. He will be the first player on the roster when the coaches get to put the team together.
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Isn’t he also rumored to be playing center at the WJC like he did at 4 nations? I’d love for him to be molded back into C
 
Lays said:
Isn’t he also rumored to be playing center at the WJC like he did at 4 nations? I’d love for him to be molded back into C
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Yeah. He played center and was quite good too. I don't think he will play center long term. He's basically the same as Chytil. A winger who was moved to center at age 18 but is a better winger
 
He's picked up his play, which was to be expected. His SH% was very low early in the season and his teammates were flubbing a lot of scoring chances that he provided. That stuff evens out over the course of the season, although his SH% still is only 7%, so I think we could expect even better goal production than we are seeing now.

He's at 5 goals and 10 assists in 30 games. .5PPG in the KHL at his age is in line with what you saw from all the best prospects to come through the KHL the last 10 years. The only one that was considerably better was Tolvanen, but we now see that his stats might've been unsustainable.

I would say that so far he's held his stock where he was picked. A lot of people thought that he wasn't a top 10 caliber player, but I think he's showing that it was the correct range. The Rangers said that they had him as the second best forward in the 2018 draft. I don't think he's shown that so far, but I think he's shown that he deserved to be a top 10 pick. On the balance, its looking like the value of the pick wasn't bad. I still would've preferred Dobson because I thought we needed a defenseman, but Kravtsov wasn't a bad pick at the time and isn't a bad pick now.
 
Really happy to see him scoring. Slightly concerned that a lot of these goals are him rocketing one timers with amounts of space that really aren't there in the NHL usually. Look at that goal today. Happens in the NHL time to time but not often. There was nobody within a mile of him.
 
haveandare said:
Really happy to see him scoring. Slightly concerned that a lot of these goals are him rocketing one timers with amounts of space that really aren't there in the NHL usually. Look at that goal today. Happens in the NHL time to time but not often. There was nobody within a mile of him.
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Zibby gets a bunch of chances on the PP in similar fashion. I wouldn't be concerned about that
 
haveandare said:
Really happy to see him scoring. Slightly concerned that a lot of these goals are him rocketing one timers with amounts of space that really aren't there in the NHL usually. Look at that goal today. Happens in the NHL time to time but not often. There was nobody within a mile of him.
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Just because he’s scored like that this season doesn’t mean that’s his main way of scoring, he drives to the net and gets a lot of goals from there as well
 
Lays said:
Just because he’s scored like that this season doesn’t mean that’s his main way of scoring, he drives to the net and gets a lot of goals from there as well
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At this level, he has 5 goals this year. Unless I'm remembering wrong, which is totally possible, at least 3 of those were similar one timer situations.

Having said that, he's had plenty of grade a scoring changes driving the net and similar stuff.
 
haveandare said:
Really happy to see him scoring. Slightly concerned that a lot of these goals are him rocketing one timers with amounts of space that really aren't there in the NHL usually. Look at that goal today. Happens in the NHL time to time but not often. There was nobody within a mile of him.
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To be fair, the goal today was a power play goal
 
After decades of disappointment, this guy will be the first Rangers prospect to become a huge star in the NHL and consistently be in the Top 10 in scoring. Can't wait.
 
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