Prospect Info: 2021 196th Overall Pick | D Daniil Pylenkov

[TheDaysOf 04]

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[TheDaysOf 04]

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

 

[DaBolts]

I like this guy. He has that look of someone that would hurt you if you touch his puck. That's what I want in an enforcing defenseman.

 

[Five Alarm Fire]

The Pylon nicknames are inevitable.

 

[Caser]

Top scorer among young KHL defensemen, btw.

 

[Bolt32]

I think this was an excellent pick. Top 4 Dman in the second best league in the world. Only 21 years old? Yeah. Reality is if we drafted with a late first an 18 year old Defenseman that was playing top 4 minutes in the KHL and producing by the time he was 21 years old we would be thrilled. This is an excellent pick by Al Murray.

 

[Rschmitz]

Only issue is enticing him to come here, but not exactly a risky move for a 7th

 

[Caser]

I think this was an excellent pick. Top 4 Dman in the second best league in the world. Only 21 years old? Yeah. Reality is if we drafted with a late first an 18 year old Defenseman that was playing top 4 minutes in the KHL and producing by the time he was 21 years old we would be thrilled. This is an excellent pick by Al Murray.

Finally!!! Someone, who understands my logic!! I mean, if we imagine that it wasn't Pylenkov, but Semykin, who would be having that kind of season - everyone would be running around and screaming about a brilliant 3rd round pick... but when it is Pylenkov everyone is like "Meh, a 7th round pick".

 

[Vasilevskiy]

By no means I'm saying he will be an NHL'r but the fact that SKA picked him up and the season he had are very good signs towards his future

 

[These Are The Days]

By no means I'm saying he will be an NHL'r but the fact that SKA picked him up and the season he had are very good signs towards his future

But is he going to playing time? Groshev, Shalagin, Semykin are all either in the minors or making a career of watching their teammates while sitting on the bench.

 

[Caser]

But is he going to playing time? Groshev, Shalagin, Semykin are all either in the minors or making a career of watching their teammates while sitting on the bench.

No idea why Shalagin and Semykin are even mentioned here, they never were at the KHL level so far. It is an issue for Groshev though, yes. As for Pylenkov, if we look at SKAs defensive depth, there are former NHLers Fantenberg and Ozhiganov, but after them there are guys, who aren't notably better than Pylenkov, so I think he should be getting enough icetime. With that being said I expect his production to drop, as there will be less PP opportunities.

 

[TheDaysOf 04]

Al Murray on Pylenkov:

“Daniil we watched for a number of years now. Daniil came over as an 18 year old. Before the world juniors Russia brings a team over in November and they play exhibition games against an all star team from the WHL, OHL, and QMJHL. They play 2 games against each of those and hockey Canada uses those games to evaluate players to bring to their world junior camp. Russia uses these games to evaluate who they want to bring to their world junior camp. Daniil has impressed us since then and we’ve continued to follow him. We’ve talked about defenseman needing to mature a little bit more, well he took a big step this year. He’s an older player. He’s got a little more time left on his contract in Russia. We’re in no hurry. If we had taken a college player at the point, he’s going to go away for 2 or 3 years. If Daniil’s another couple of years before he comes to the American Hockey League, it’s no different than taking a college player in our opinion."

"He’s got good skating, good puck moving. His points increased this year in the KHL, which is outside of the national hockey league, the top teams in the KHL are on par basically with the American Hockey League teams. That’s a real good development league for an older player like this. Not necessarily for an 18 or 17 year old. But Daniil’s taken a big step and we’ll continue to monitor him. He can’t come over for any of our stuff in the summer time because the Russian teams will be starting up, but hopefully sooner or later. He knows that we’re interested. He was pretty excited to get the call. He thought he was too old. Like he had been through this a few times. He knew he was still eligible to be drafted but he’s thinking 'nobodies going to draft me so I guess I’ll just keep plugging away here and hopefully catch somebody's eye when I'm 23-24.' But we were on him and he was very happy to be selected.”

"(He's probably thinking) 'I’m playing in the Russian KHL, teams are looking, but I’m an older guy. Out of sight, out of mind. Im not going to the world junior, Im not going to the U-18s ,so I don’t have the profile of some of these other guys, but I can make a nice living in Russia, and Im treated well here, Russia’s home, so it’s a good league.' But they all want to come to the National Hockey League. They want to see if they can play. The good Russian players, and he’s a good Russian player, want to challenge themselves in the National Hockey League."

 

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[Jersey Fan 12]

Has moved around the KHL but is averaging over 20 minutes of ice time in his first season with Dynamo Moscow (He played over 22 minutes per game in the playoffs last season for Severstal).

Are the Lightning still intent on signing him?

 

[Jersey Fan 12]

Believe his contract is over with Dynamo. Any chance he signs with Lightning or Springfield?

 

[barriers]

Believe his contract is over with Dynamo. Any chance he signs with Lightning or Springfield?

He still has a year left on his KHL contract

 

[Jersey Fan 12]

He still has a year left on his KHL contract

Didn't realize that. EP had it as 2023-24.

Edit: My mistake. Looked at bio picture and not contract status.