Break out has no age restrictions, but I guess his break out was last season already.Do we consider Zernov a break out or too old?
Not that much of bouncing around the league, he was in Dynamo system for his whole pro career before moving to Torpedo with a season-long loan spell to hometown Togliatti. It's just that he could never quite crack Dynamo roster despite even being invited to play in EHT during the Lada loan spell.
Long story short, really good clapper but so-so defensively. A bit like Kulyash just not as fat and less defensive blunders. Last year was really his coming out party.
Break out has no age restrictions, but I guess his break out was last season already.
As a 17 y.o. kid, yes.I think he started out in Lada’s system and then went to Dinamo.
I was thinking that too, but last year he was kinda forced into that situation due to a poor Lada roster, if can keep contributing on a strong Avangard team, that would be a proof of a legit break out, but yes you are probably correctBreak out has no age restrictions, but I guess his break out was last season already.
Maybe even behind expecations. A year older Mikheev is leading the team in scoring a two years younger Manukian is three points behind. Zernov is definitely not a huge standout on the team. But that's what happens often to players coming from a bad teams where they were leaders. He has to adjust and get comfortable still I guess while a guy like Mikheev who is at home with Avangard is benefitting from the coaching style greatly. He is definitely a Hartley's kind of player.Thoughts on him?
He wouldn’t be a breakout necessary, but I think Chudinov has a career year.
I honestly think SKA put shackles on him. They turned him into stay-at-home. He is more talented then what he has been so far. You could already see it towards the end of the season.
He was a regular for Omsk next year, has pretty nice wheels. Can score some too, evidently. Has the same birthday as me too, must be a great player
Frankly, more people should be directed to such career route. MHL > MHL/VHL split > KHL/VHL split > KHL. Other than being kicked from Omsk (not really his fault) he was moving on up his whole career, well done to the guy.
Relax a bit. It is a competition. We have at least 3 or 4 players out of the VHL on our current championship team.Career route sounds good, now the way Russians think - plyer didn't make the club in the KHL out of juniors and got an offer in VHL - he is done. Now all the corruption, the Rottenbergs, the Ivanyuzhenkovs, the Tretyak's, the Stepanov's of the world.....I wish it was just pure competition
but it's notRelax a bit. It is a competition. We have at least 3 or 4 players out of the VHL on our current championship team.
The fact remains that at least AkBars(a perennial contender) is willing to give VHLers a chance and some of them not only stick, but become players valuable to the team.but it's not
Also reading through the Puljujarvi thread on the main boards I was thinking I wish we had this kind of problems with young top talent. Big part of it is not corruption and whatever you are suggesting. It's the players themselves never committing to that route. We'd be happy to have Lazarev, Khovanov, Sergachyov, Svvechnikovs and that's not all of them to go that route. Obviously we'd have some of them in the KHL at this point.but it's not
That's one team, ok CSKA may be...and we are talking teams that have MHL-VHL-KHL structure.The fact remains that at least AkBars(a perennial contender) is willing to give VHLers a chance and some of them not only stick, but become players valuable to the team.
I am not sure which rout you are talking about - if that's the route of maturing in your own league, and advancing to NA once you are all you can be in your domestic league - I might agree here, but not fully. We can't develop defensmen, not good at developing centers either. But you precisely know what I am talking about - is "blatnie" players making the teams over more talented kids on EVERY level, at times even KHL. Sense of entitlement, lack of competetiton for spots, idiotic foreign player limits and bluh, bluh, bluhAlso reading through the Puljujarvi thread on the main boards I was thinking I wish we had this kind of problems with young top talent. Big part of it is not corruption and whatever you are suggesting. It's the players themselves never committing to that route. We'd be happy to have Lazarev, Khovanov, Sergachyov, Svvechnikovs and that's not all of them to go that route. Obviously we'd have some of them in the KHL at this point.
The KHL is quite complicated with that. Look how many AkBars players end up in Sochi nowadays. That intra-KHL relationships are part of the development ladder in a way.That's one team, ok CSKA may be...and we are talking teams that have MHL-VHL-KHL structure.
Foreigner limit aside(that is a different story and I am stricktly pro limit and nothing will change it) that happens all over the world in some form. Just like the mentioned Larionov Jr.. It's human natureI am not sure which rout you are talking about - if that's the route of maturing in your own league, and advancing to NA once you are all you can be in your domestic league - I might agree here, but not fully. We can't develop defensmen, not good at developing centers either. But you precisely know what I am talking about - is "blatnie" players making the teams over more talented kids on EVERY level, at times even KHL. Sense of entitlement, lack of competetiton for spots, idiotic foreign player limits and bluh, bluh, bluh
The KHL is quite complicated with that. Look how many AkBars players end up in Sochi nowadays. That intra-KHL relationships are part of the development ladder in a way.
I want more mobility there too. Players should get their chances in all 3 leagues and be moved if there is no place for them in a system. But that's in a perfect world.
Loans are illegal in KHL, yet they are still happeningLoans are legal in soccer.