Confirmed with Link: Alex Volkov on waivers for contract termination

[bsu]

Wrong thread

 

[vorky]

He signed with SKA until 30 April 2025

 

[Smirnov2Chistov]

Good for him, in all seriousness.

Would it be wrong to speculate that his contract departure means us acquiring more assets at the TDL?

 

[bsu]

bye bye

 

[Jersey Fan 12]

Barring the emergence of some of the players who took the NCAA route, the 2017 NHL Draft class is looking fairly thin.

Other than Jason Robertson and Max Comtois, and maybe New Jersey's Jesper Boqvist, not a lot of the second round picks have stood out to this point.

It looks like Volkov was either injured or demoted as he played just 19 regular season games for SKA, though he did play all 16 playoff games.

 

[Smirnov2Chistov]

Barring the emergence of some of the players who took the NCAA route, the 2017 NHL Draft class is looking fairly thin.

Other than Jason Robertson and Max Comtois, and maybe New Jersey's Jesper Boqvist, not a lot of the second round picks have stood out to this point.

It looks like Volkov was either injured or demoted as he played just 19 regular season games for SKA, though he did play all 16 playoff games.

He was just another fringe player in a long line of fringe players that we had. I still wish evgeny artyukhin worked out for us years ago

 

[FiveHoleTickler]

This is an odd thread bump

 

[Rybread86]

He was just another fringe player in a long line of fringe players that we had. I still wish evgeny artyukhin worked out for us years ago

Thats a name I never thought Id hear again! That dude was massive.

 

[JabbaJabba]

Haha, I remember when they tried Artyukhin with Koivu and Selänne. Wish it had worked out.

I also remember in the WC 2011 Artyukhin was injuring people left and right. I remember when some Finnish reporter interviewed Tuomo Ruutu on the morning of Finland-Russia game and every question was about Artyukhin. He was asking like "how does Artyukhin affect your preparation for the game?" and "what will you do against Artyukhin?". I was fully expecting him to ask "how does playing against Artyukhin affect your breakfast?".

 

[Anaheim4ever]

Haha, I remember when they tried Artyukhin with Koivu and Selänne. Wish it had worked out.

I also remember in the WC 2011 Artyukhin was injuring people left and right. I remember when some Finnish reporter interviewed Tuomo Ruutu on the morning of Finland-Russia game and every question was about Artyukhin. He was asking like "how does Artyukhin affect your preparation for the game?" and "what will you do against Artyukhin?". I was fully expecting him to ask "how does playing against Artyukhin affect your breakfast?".

Artyukhin was also a faster skater than he looked which was nice to go along with him being big, wish he could have developed into a bottom line energy guy who uses his decent speed to not be out of position and facepunch when needed. Never saw much offensive potential in him when i watched, so i felt he should have focused on becoming a defensive minded winger who can hit and punch.