Joretus
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I think Rask, Price an Montoya are definitely better prospects right now, but Semen can easily be compared to Harding, Irving, Pogge, Schwarz and in Varlamov's favor.
You are at least partly correct. But the reason is russian goalies aren't so popular in NA. It would be same thing if Finland wouldn't had so much succes with goalies last couple of years.
Any not top-10/20 prospect outside NA will always get much less fuzz than inside of NA juniors.
If Kopitar would have been ie. canadian/yankee he would have got reallyreally much PR before NHL and even more in NHL as well. And so in HFboard he would have been a lot higher. Same goes for Varlamov as well.