GDT: SKA vs Dinamo Minsk - October 3, 12:10 PM EST

[Kennerback]

KHL press office
1 October 2024, 17:25

Best players of September​

- Best rookie for the first time in his career was forward Ivan Demidov (SKA), who scored 8 (4+4) points with a plus-7 differential. The SKA forward potted a double, recorded five hits, blocked three shots, and posted two takeaways. Demidov was SKA’s third player to be awarded the best rookie honors for the month, following Kirill Marchenko and Ivan Morozov.

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[Next Best Thing]

Will he get more than 6 mins TOI?

 

[A Loyal Demidog]

Will he get more than 6 mins TOI?

Nah. He needs to be punished for winning best rookie, in order to keep him humble.

 

[SlafySZN]

Will he get more than 6 mins TOI?

Probably not. He’s on the 4th line today.

 

[Grate n Colorful Oz]

Nah. He needs to be punished for winning best rookie, in order to keep him humble.

Roman Rotherrien

 

[Sasha Orlov]

Nah. He needs to be punished for winning best rookie, in order to keep him humble.

He need to learn rispeck

 

[StCaufield]

“Hi my name is coach I’m not going to play potentially our best player more than 7 mins after ripping it up.” Pathetic. I guess Chicago should have buried Bedard on the 4th line last year then

 

[Nico Cauzuki]

4th line

 

[Saxon]

Bring him over already.

 

[CaptnNemo]

At this point I'm going all in on conspiracy

Rottenburger is MK Ultraying our phenom!

 

[Toene]

Bring him to Laval ASAP. Never thought I'd say this, but in this particular case, Laval is better than Russia!

 

[Next Best Thing]

Bring him to Laval ASAP. Never thought I'd say this, but in this particular case, Laval is better than Russia!

Probably not, he's still in the Russian NHL for whatever that's worth. But still, very questionable coaching. You have to look at this and just tell yourself there's quasi nothing Demidov can do to get more minutes, at all. Unless he gets 3g 2a in 5 mins TOI and even then that will probably make the hc look bad so he will be punished even more.

 

[Seb]

He has 8 points in 10 games, ice time is not an issue guys.

 

[CaptnNemo]

He has 8 points in 10 games, ice time is not an issue guys.

Kinda is though..if he played top 2 lines he'd have more ice time AND better teammates...He'd have 15 points minimum. We're not even considering how much more time he'd have if he was actually on PP

 

[Tyson]

Oh cool I get to read a bunch of people complain for a few hours!

 

[xX SEYF Xx]

Am I the only one not getting bothered by his usage?

Until now he looks like he's responding well to that and trying to make the most from his short few shifts.
He's facing adversity and not allowed any mistakes after being his team's god last year.
I mean being held to a very high standard to earn ice time is not looking like it's affecting him.
If anything, he will thrive once he get's over here after a full season battling and pushing himself for ice time.

Not worried for him, he strikes me like a competitive person who will respond positively to adversity and not whine about ice time.

 

[SlafySZN]

Am I the only one not getting bothered by his usage?

Until now he looks like he's responding well to that and trying to make the most from his short few shifts.
He's facing adversity and not allowed any mistakes after being his team's god last year.
I mean being held to a very high standard to earn ice time is not looking like it's affecting him.
If anything, he will thrive once he get's over here after a full season battling and pushing himself for ice time.

Not worried for him, he strikes me like a competitive person who will respond positively to adversity and not whine about ice time.

Not worried for him. It just sucks that they’re not playing their best offensive player in the role he deserves. He’s 2nd in goals and points on the team.

 

[SannywithoutCompy]

It'll be funny to see him go from 12 minutes a night to 17 a night at the end of the year in a far better league

 

[le_sean]

Am I the only one not getting bothered by his usage?

Until now he looks like he's responding well to that and trying to make the most from his short few shifts.
He's facing adversity and not allowed any mistakes after being his team's god last year.
I mean being held to a very high standard to earn ice time is not looking like it's affecting him.
If anything, he will thrive once he get's over here after a full season battling and pushing himself for ice time.

Not worried for him, he strikes me like a competitive person who will respond positively to adversity and not whine about ice time.

I don’t think anyone is worried that Demidov is going to crack and start underperforming because of his usage. The problem is the mindset of the coach who doesn’t give a shit about one of his best players because a) he’s a rookie and b) he’s leaving at the end of the year. Hockey, and all sports for that matter, should be a meritocracy. Meanwhile we have this moron who thinks he’s Scotty Bowman with the tough love approach.

You can’t tell me Rotenberg doesn’t see that Demidov does something positive every shift and that he thinks the solution to improving his team is to give Ivan less time on ice.