Prospect Info: 186th overall: Vancouver selects Artyom Manukyan (RW, Avangard Omsk)

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[Nuckles]

20 years old, 5'7", 140lbs, 2 points in 21 KHL games and 12 points in 12 MHL games (though he had 105 in 60 games last year).

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

[jimmythescot]

Is he friends with Tryamkin or something? This makes very little sense to me.

 

[Johnny Canucker]

Learn nothing from Chubarov / Tryamkin


KHL is too comfortable.

Stop
Drafting
Russians.

 

[Jay Cee]

Lol. That's a small body gentlemen.

 

[groov2]

Why? Did they make a name mixup, thinking they were drafting Artyom Minulin?

 

[Johnny Canucker]

Such a terrible draft year. Honestly.

 

[Baby Pettersson]

Makes Johnny Hockey look like a giant.

 

[Jevo]

They saw Palmu last year and thought, can we go even smaller?

 

[FroshaugFan2]

His 105 points in 2016-17 is the single season record for the MHL.

 

[ziploc]

Such a terrible draft year. Honestly.

I think that is silly.

But I will absolutely agree that this is a weird one.

 

[Fire Benning]

5 foot 7, 139 pounds..Makes Hughes look like a monster.

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

What in the f*** is this?

 

[KDizzle]

The way the game is going soon all the best players will be 5'3" 110lbs.

 

[clunk]

Yeah I'm at a loss for words with this one.

 

[MadaCanuckle]

First two rounds were good, next ones... holy shit!

 

[Tim Calhoun]

Drafting smaller skilled players who were passed in previous drafts is usually a good thing, but this one is kind of extreme. At 20, one would hope he'd have more proven success in the KHL.

 

[Jevo]

You'd really hope that weight measurement is outdated, because that is not a lot. But it's the same type of pick as Palmu last year. Undersized skilled double overager. His totals last year are huge, and he already played mainly with men this year, but he didn't put up a lot of points. It's a skill pick and I like that, it worked out well last year with Palmu so far.

 

[Knight53]

interesting pick

would've went with liam kirk

 

[Josepho]

Palmu actually had weight to him.

This guy doesn't.

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

Palmu actually had weight to him.

This guy doesn't.

Palmu has 55lbs on this guy.

 

[krutovsdonut]

utica pick?

 

[arttk]

Overage, undersized, plays on the wing and from Russia. Talk about trying to beat the odds with this pick.

 

[clunk]

He's not even the most well known Artyom Manukyan…

 

[MS]

Ehhh I'm all for taking overage undersized talents but this seems really extreme. Absurdly tiny and the only hope is that that is an old measurement.

Plus I tend to feel that drafting Russians is just flushing a pick down the toilet in most cases.

 

[VancouverJagger]

Holy Crap - Apparently our carefully crafted strategy this draft was to concentrate on players who are extremely slender........certainly not setting any size records here are we?

 

[MS]

I tried to find an updated size measurement but the IIIF website for the WJCs and the KHL team measurement both have him at the same 139 lbs.

If he was 18 it's one thing but at 20 ....

 

[David Bruce Banner]

What the hell...

 

[NoShowWilly]

why did they swap 6th round picks with Washington? what did they get?

2019 6th as well