Anything on this kid? How about the other top 98 Russian Vitaly Abramov? Who's better or has more potential?
Well, that's what I've found while surfing the internet about the kid.
Dmitry Sokolov 14.04.1998
Plays for Avangard-98, Avangard-97. Played also for Avangard-96, Serebryannye Lvy-98, Avtomobilist-97 and several times for Traktor-98.
His stats for Avangard-98:
season: 2008 games: 6 goals: 17 assists: 7
2009/2010: 14-31-11
2010/2011: 5-5-1
2011/2012: 18-37-25
2012/2013: 10-13-7
Avangard-97:
2008/2009: 34-70-43
2009/2010: 23-35-36
2010/2011: 32-43-35
2011/2012: 34-52-43
2012/2013: 34-44-38
World Selects Invitational 2011 with Avangard-97: 3g. 6a. in 7 games
World Selects Invitational 2012 with Traktor-98: 13g. 5a in ? games
Had 2g. 7a. in 5 games for Avtomobilist-97 in 2012.
Had 7g.1a. in 5 games for Traktor-98 in 2013.
Had 3g. 4a. in 5 games for Avangard-96 in 2008/2009.
Scouts are very high on the kid. They say he is a great skater and perfectly sees the ice, its very hard to know what is going to happen when he is on the ice. He is a winger, but also plays C.
What I can say judging from what I saw on the video above is that Sokolov has just great "Semin-like" hands and a very good wrist shot.