I just was a bit sarcastic. What I meant is that practice shows that it doesn't work like that with all those models and NHLe stuff and doesn't work in both good and bad way: high-scoring KHL guys can fail in the NHL, low-scoring guys can succeed, so in the end of the day that kind of approach doesn't make sense at all.
Your takes on our KHL prospects are very much appreciated. We have not had a lot of luck specifically with Russian players for quite a few years so I suspect that many of us are going to be very cautious with our expectations.
Yeah, they won, so they are now going to the 3rd round.
Thanks. Where is he on his team's playoff scoring list? Is he on their 1st, 2nd or 3rd line?
Plays on the first line, currently is the top playoff scorer of the Lokomotiv team with 4G+6A in 12 games (currently he is 9th in the league's playoff scoring list).
Thanks! How are the rest of the Oilers Russian prospects coming along?
Not like there are much of them there, I guess only Yevseyev, he had sort of a conflict with the coach and got sent down to the VHL. Coach is fired now, so there are hopes that there will be something better next season.
Denezhkin at this point seems unlikely to amount to an NHL player it sounds like. Yevseyev is a guy that a number of people were high on here. How has he done in the VHL?
Is there a reasonable North American comparison for the VHL?
To be fair, Denezhkin never seemed like he got the upside, just a hard-working kid, although on rare occasions those type of players end up being good too. Yevseyev looks legit in the VHL, plays top minutes there, drops the gloves from time to time, still in the playoffs there btw (3rd round too), while his KHL team is on vacation already for some time.
Purely by the talent level it would be ECHL, but the VHL is a much less scoring league - only couple of players reach the point-per-game level.
Makes sense. Many are leaving Merrimack this year. Thought that would encourage him to sign with the Oil. With the Oilers success of getting college players to sign on the dotted line I was hoping he would sign now.
There's still a chance he goes pro. I saw a breakdown in an article that said 5% of the players that entered the transfer portal last year went pro, but that's compared to 74% of them transferring to a different program.
