Datsyuk Going To His Actual Home. In Russia. Finally.

[Retire91]

Happy for him, I was thinking it was a long shot if it was even true at all. Would have welcomed him back of course. I agree with above, most likely a combination of click bait and agent B.S.

 

[Richard Gibson]

Dan Milstein sticks his nose where it doesn't belong ,good bye

 

[Fil Larkmanthanasiou]

The potential of return on the extra pick (Hronek) the Wings got in the Datsyuk trade looks very promising for 19-20.

This was kinda funny before the title of the thread was changed.

 

[The Zetterberg Era]

You guys/gals are right. Will delete a bunch here and I will just stop talking about it. Nothing good comes of it. I will pm a couple of you that asked. But let's leave it at that and move on.

 

[Pizza!Pizza!]

I seriously doubt Datsyuk gave any consideration to returning to the NHL. This whole thing was:
-Posturing by his agent to get more as much money as possible from the KHL and/or
-Clickbait from Detroit/hockey/sports media drawn from ["Datsyuk's 3 years on the Coyote's voluntary retired list expires" + "Datsyuk doesn't have a KHL deal for next season" = "Datsyuk could return to the NHL" = "Datsyuk could return to the Red Wings" = Website traffic = ad revenue]
Datsyuk left the NHL because he was sick of having Escrow steal from his checks. There's no way he was going to come back and make way less money in the NHL unless he was getting a new lucrative endorsement deal from Dr. Rahmani.

Nigerian (prince) Hockey League

 

[GreatGordie9]

I certainly hope some of our prospects turn out like Pavel did. We could use another "Magic Man".

 

[Caser]

 

[FabricDetails]

Miss him.

 

[lilidk]

I certainly hope some of our prospects turn out like Pavel did. We could use another "Magic Man".

We should get him as an assistant coach

 

[FabricDetails]

We should get him as an assistant coach

"How should I handle this type of defensive scheme?"
"Dangle Dangle Dangle..."

 

[TheClap]

Nice dangles for an old dude with no ankles.

He wouldn't be able to pull of those moves, moving that slow, in the NHL anymore though... unless he was playing against the current Red Wings defense.

 

[Retire91]

That was a nice move but those two players really just waved their sticks at him too lol. That was some terrible defense even when cutting them some slack that it was a turnover.

 

[MBH]

Those were the days

 

[RedWingzz]

Nice dangles for an old dude with no ankles.

He wouldn't be able to pull of those moves, moving that slow, in the NHL anymore though... unless he was playing against the current Red Wings defense.

I think you are underestimating the KHL fs you think there is a substantial difference between NHL player speed and KHL player speed. These are still elite, professional hockey players, who would not look completely out of place in the NHL.

 

[TheClap]

I think you are underestimating the KHL fs you think there is a substantial difference between NHL player speed and KHL player speed. These are still elite, professional hockey players, who would not look completely out of place in the NHL.

Well they certainly didn't look like it on that play.

The fact that a 40 year old Pavel Datsyuk playing with his busted ankles can be 27th in scoring last season says otherwise. The fact that Teemu Pulkinnen can currently be sitting at 28th in the league in scoring says otherwise. Steve Moses, who set the KHL scoring record in 2015 (later to be topped by Sergei Mozyakin), could never do enough in the AHL to crack an NHL line-up.

 

[wingerdinger]

just wish he could have played 47 more games, it's always special when a player can play 1000 NHL regular season games with the wings, especially someone as magical as Pavel.

 

[ArGarBarGar]

I think you are underestimating the KHL fs you think there is a substantial difference between NHL player speed and KHL player speed. These are still elite, professional hockey players, who would not look completely out of place in the NHL.

Compared to us slowpokes both look similar, but the reality is the NHL is a major step above the KHL in terms of talent and speed.

 

[Dotter]

We are all so blessed to have had Pavel to watch night in, night out. His nickname "magic man" is the perfect definition. He was an absolute joy to watch!

There will be no other.

 

[Ricelund]

I miss Pav.

 

[odin1981]

just wish he could have played 47 more games, it's always special when a player can play 1000 NHL regular season games with the wings, especially someone as magical as Pavel.

Would have if it weren't for the owner's lockouts costing us 100+ games of him.

 

[The Flying Octopus]

I think you are underestimating the KHL fs you think there is a substantial difference between NHL player speed and KHL player speed. These are still elite, professional hockey players, who would not look completely out of place in the NHL.

I can’t tell if you’re joking or not but if you are not, ugh, yes they would most certainly look out of place.

 

[RedWingzz]

I can’t tell if you’re joking or not but if you are not, ugh, yes they would most certainly look out of place.

I wasn't joking. Look at international play for example. It is not out of the norm to see a team with few NHL players (ex: Switzerland/Denmark) compete with, and even occasionally beat the powerhouse countries. Yes, the NHL is a better league, I'm just saying it is not substantial. If you took an average KHL player, and inserted him on an average NHL team for one game, he would not be "lost", so to speak. These are incredible hockey players, who can play the game at a high level.

Another example, this year in the preseason, Philly lost to Lausanne. A team full of NHL talent lost to a team in a league that is inferior to the KHL.

 

[Caser]

Nice dangles for an old dude with no ankles.

He wouldn't be able to pull of those moves, moving that slow, in the NHL anymore though... unless he was playing against the current Red Wings defense.

Probably you're right, although to be fair one of the guys he outplayed is Corban Knight, who played for the Flyers just last season.

 

[TheClap]

Probably you're right, although to be fair one of the guys he outplayed is Corban Knight, who played for the Flyers just last season.

There's a reason he's not in the NHL this season...

 

[Goalie guy]

We will never see another like him.