Bear12Good
Registered User
Russian players in Ottawa Senators, is it real?
You would like to see the Russian players in Ottawa?
You would like to see the Russian players in Ottawa?
Heck, I'll take players from North Korea, if I think they can help us win games.
Don't really care where they come from.
The Russians think that the owner of the Ottawa Senators hates Russian people
The senators certainly won't draft any Russians. That being said Volchenkov was loved here by the fan base and Gonchar was appreciated.
The draft cold streak of spending relatively high picks on high risk high reward Russians with absolutely no results during the Muckler era hurt.
Off the top of my head Kirill Lyamin, Igor Mirnov, Alexeï Kaigorodov, Dimitri Megalinsky, Vitaly Anikeyenko (rip), Ruslan Bashkirov, were all 4th or higher picks or higher (I think there are 4 second rounders there) who didn't work out.
That being said, its now 2016 and the full moratorium is ridiculous.
Also interesting that we keep dipping into the NCAA well despite multiple busts while completely cutting off Russians.
They literally tried their hardest top trade up for Sergachev this year, and I know they loved Svechnikov in 2015.
I was all aboard the Kaigorodov hype train and am still disappointed he didn't work out as our 2nd line centre behind Spezza.
I wish we could have seen what would have happened had he accepted te AHL demotion.
Spezza, Kaigorodov, Fisher, Kelly could have been deadly.
Kaigorodov ended up being an OK 2nd line center at the KHL level, but it doesn't seem like he was going to have a stellar NHL career just based on how everything else turned out for him overseas.
Could have been an OK depth guy, perhaps. Mike Comrie (who we traded him for) was probably better than anything Kaigorodov could have turned into.
Yep, its a Melnyk thing vs a Murray thing.
Upsetting with all the elite high skill forwards Russia keeps cranking out.
And upsetting Melnyk cant put his ego aside and get over it. Its like assuming all Americans are racist, sexist, rapists because of Donald Trump.
The Russians think that the owner of the Ottawa Senators hates Russian people
Melnyk anti Russian theory???? Wasn't it Melnyk who pushed Murray into signing aging Kovalev. Not a draft pick and pre-invasion but just saying.....