I do know a lot about our prospects, and I try to keep up to date on them all the time. A lot of what I read said he played a very intense game on the ice, most of it in the offensive end. The main problem I saw was that he was a "hothead" in the Russian leagues, and that may be needed to be worked on. The articles I recalled at the time of my posting mentioned more about his good work ethic on the ice, rather than poor defense. Excuse me - Mistakes are made once in awhile. I took the "plays intense part/doesn't want to leave the ice part" for granted and assumed it meant he played hard period. As I said in most articles, it said that Radulov covers his man and works hard on the ice. Certainly that would be reason to post that he doesn't have as glaring defensive shortcomings as somone like Schremp???
However, the comment about reading up on the scouting reports....I read some that go one way, and some the other way. Certainly after looking at some other articles, I can understand Seachd's points, but we were pretty much on the same page anyways. Still, in regard to Schremp, I do not believe Radulov has nearly as big a problem defensively. This can change obviously, but in the context of the post....hopefully you can see where I was coming from. The scouting reports said he could work on his defensive game, like all prospects can, but it certainly didn't label him a one-dimensional, lazy, uncaring forward. That he covers his man and plays intense on the ice, are all good signs that he will be fine defensively. We don't know now if he will correct certain areas of his game, and this is why I said he has bust potential just like Schremp does.