I still need to know what you think IQ is. I can't comprehend arriving at the below conclusion :
I will give your video a view if I can get behind your philosophy. I can't in good conscious watch it without hearing an explanation for having a take like this. For 2 years I have seen this kid anticipate the game at level that can sometimes cause trouble for him. And react on the spot to the smallest opening and changes in positioning on the ice. I honestly can't fathom someone legitimately having this opinion by my definition of IQ. I am not trying to be rude, I genuinely am not able comprehend how you are evaluating IQ to draw this conclusion. What do you think Hockey IQ is?
It's not so much a philosophy as it is just the definition. At its root, hockey IQ is anticipation. Now, there's a lot of things that make that up. As I show in the video, we have playmaking process and vision, there's spatial awareness, there's off-puck play like getting open offensively, positional integrity defensively, risk mitigation, etc. etc.
I don't think what you're saying is rude by any means, but there are certain aspects of Michkov's hockey sense make-up that are not as strong as others - which I point out in that video. I think an area where he's really good is his proprioceptive system - you can see that in his (what I call) "automatic puck protection" mechanism. You can also see his anticipation shine through in terms of anticipating goalie movement. This is a player that will be comfortable shooting at where hips were on a goalie, for instance, which is sort of the new wave, the new shooting advent.
So, there are a bunch of different factors that make it up. He has an interesting blend of mental game. It will almost certainly make him a shooter/goal scorer more than a playmaker or balanced attacker. Not that there's anything wrong with that...