Prospect Info: #36OA - Hurricanes Select G Pyotr Kochetkov

[DaveG]

6'3 goalie, played with Sochi (KHL) and Ryazan (VHL) this past year, has been acquired by SKA St Petersburg

Was dominant in the WJC
Ryazan: 18GP 2.13GAA, .930%
Russia U-20: 5GP 1.45GAA, .953%

HP scout comment:
"Even though Jones has the superior athletic trait I look for, Kochetkov has a rare set of mental tools that put him ahead of Jones athletic traits"

Crazy Russian Goalie!!!!!!!!

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[LastWordArmy]

Our look

Pyotr Kochetkov Scouting Report: 2019 NHL Draft #64

 

[Unsustainable]

Awesome.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

A goalie!

 

[Roman Yoshi]

I'm honestly surprised but maybe I shouldn't be?

 

[Ole Gil]

I hope he's good at hockeying!

 

[Joe McGrath]

A goalie that they don’t have to develop at all themselves as he’ll be in the KHL for a few years. Bit of a gamble but he’s got the goods.

 

[the halleJOKEL]

draft all the russians

 

[Oogie Boogie]

Good!

 

[Svechhammer]

Now we have to have Mrazek come back so we can transition from Petr and Ned to Pyotr and Ned

 

[A Star is Burns]

Elite Prospects shows his contract is through next season. Given his age, seems like a good time to bring him over after that.

 

[vorbis]

tune to 3:23 to see Kochetkov make the "save of the tournament"

 

[Lucky Lindy]

Love this.

 

[The Faulker 27]

tune to 3:23 to see Kochetkov make the "save of the tournament"

He was trained by Chuck Norris.

 

[Ahoy there]

he said Nyet to the net

(I'll show myself out, thank you)

 

[Canes]

Love that we used a somewhat high pick on a goalie. We had enough picks to be aggressive in trying to find blue chip goalie prospect.

 

[Tryamw]

We like our Crazy Russian goaltenders...

 

[agent082]

I like this pick.

 

[NotOpie]

This is the type pick where I'll gladly yield to the experts.....the numbers looks impressive...

 

[Oogie Boogie]

tune to 3:23 to see Kochetkov make the "save of the tournament"

Holy shit

 

[Svechhammer]

tune to 3:23 to see Kochetkov make the "save of the tournament"

Dear lord, that kind of play behind our defense is.... Unfair

 

[Kshahdoo]

Хоккей. Петр Кочетков: «Буду оправдывать ожидания «Каролины», рад, что меня выбрал этот клуб»

He's happy being picked by Carolina so high and has already talked to Svechnikov about this, they know each other for very long.

 

[ookhaab]

tune to 3:23 to see Kochetkov make the "save of the tournament"

As a former goalie, his agility is amazing.

BTW the first player to be drafted out of Russia by Canes, since Igor Knyazev in 2001 at #15.

Cheap ass Dundon investing in Russian scouting?!??!???!?

 

[jiitu]

Love that we used a somewhat high pick on a goalie. We had enough picks to be aggressive in trying to find blue chip goalie prospect.

Yeah! Last summer in some discussions here i was pretty much putting effort to show statistics that high goalie picks are not more "lottory" than other players...or actually even outside top 3OV or at least top 10OV they seem to be even less lottory opposite to a common thinking of many.

So I do believe there is high change here to have future nhl goalie.

 

[GoldiFox]

I've read a lot about Kochetkov but video is hard to find. In what I could find he looks aggressive and has some of the sharpest reaction time I've ever seen in a goalie. He sets and reacts to plays in a nanosecond. Like a bear trap going off on a gram of pressure.

That top-10 WJC play is bananas. He made the first kick save, processed the rebound trajectory, and swung his back leg up to make the second save in a heartbeat. That is an elite level of awareness, creativity, and agility that is rare. Especially for a guy who is 6'3".