News Article: Alex Burmistrov bitter that Olli Jokinen got more ice time with Winnipeg Jets

[wpgsilver]

Clips like that make me question if time in the KHL will help him at all improve. We've seen him try that move in the NHL with predictable results. Yet in Russia that move works and reinforces the idea that its a sound hockey play.
I don't think Burmi needs to develop skills further, he needs to learn how to play a North American game. I'm hopeful but skeptical that he'll figure it out.

 

[Joe Hallenback]

Do we have anyone to compare him to going back to the KHL, getting better and coming back to the NHL? Only guy I can think of is Radulov and he went back to the KHL right away.

 

[Bob E]

Clips like that make me question if time in the KHL will help him at all improve. We've seen him try that move in the NHL with predictable results. Yet in Russia that move works and reinforces the idea that its a sound hockey play.
I don't think Burmi needs to develop skills further, he needs to learn how to play a North American game. I'm hopeful but skeptical that he'll figure it out.

Agreed.

That's where Detroit, playing alongside or with Pavel, may be the only place where Burmi can learn to adapt his game to an effective NA style. Assuming he can change his game.

Would Detroit give up a good young prospect to get him? Hard to say.

 

[Hank Chinaski]

Do we have anyone to compare him to going back to the KHL, getting better and coming back to the NHL? Only guy I can think of is Radulov and he went back to the KHL right away.

Mark Giordano. Or, if you want a Russian example, Alex Semin.

 

[ps241]

Not sure who 48 is in the dark blue but he is defending like a forward does on a PP (as in total pylon)? That feels like an all star game moment and any normal defender would have routinely forced Burmi wide and taken away that opportunity.

It was a nice shot though.

 

[garret9]

The shot is much more impressive than the deke there, he's in pretty close and gets it upstairs quick.

This.