Prospect Info: Golden Knights Selects Ivan Morozov at #61
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Supermassive
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The Hockey News didn’t have him in their Top 100, but they tend to favour NA skaters a bit. Imagine he stays in Russia next year?
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Vegas locker room lmao. Once he gets a load of the russian stripper population in Vegas he's gonna love this town.
Scored SKA first goal of the season on 13:53 ice time. Other stats include 1 shot 1 hit and a 64% face off win percentage 9 wins of 14 draws.
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CupInSIX
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He does need to work on his 2 way game to be fair.
They could potentially have a 5 man Russian unit in the playoffs:
Dorofeyev Morozov Marushev
Chayka Miromanov
CupInSIX
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Him being public with his desire to play in NA makes me wonder if he'll ask to be released by Sochi. They're on an Olympic break until the 22nd, after which Sochi plays 4 games and they ain't makin the post season.
edit: apparently Sochi just added a 3 game exhibition next week during the break.
edit: apparently Sochi just added a 3 game exhibition next week during the break.
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Maybe he realizes the way to play in the NHL as a VGK draftee is to show enough in the AHL to be included in the inevitable trades they make of prospects for veterans.
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Given the fact that he struggled to stay in the SKA lineup and spent the bulk of the year in the VHL it would seem that even the AHL could be a challenge at this point.
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SKA loaded up with vets & added guys like Komarov. They were fine with playing him in the playoffs the year before, and he's been doing just fine on Sochi's main club.
We heard the same things about Dorofeyev.
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He didn't struggle to stay in Ska's lineup lol. Ska did Ska things and tried to force him into an extension(playing him in the VHL instead, barely giving him KHL time, etc.).
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Thanks for the correction. Would you compare the way SKA handles young players to the way they were treated in Finland a few years ago before the league added extra teams?
In particular, Karpat was always a tough place for younger players to get ice time.
Though in fairness they were usually competing for the league championship.
theslatcher
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No, Ska usually give young players good ice time. UNLESS they are on their final year of their contract in which case they will try their hardest to force you to re-sign instead of going over to NA(they do this by playing you at 13F, scratching you, sending you down to the VHL, etc.).
See Podkolzin, & Morozov for recent examples. Heck, Morozov played top-6 last season and played well.
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And just like that, the KHL regular season has ended. Unless he's sticking around for the Sochi exhibition, we should expect a signing.
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I think their trade deadline was in December, so unless they really want to assign him to their minor league team it would probably be in their best interest to let him go. SKA was just being spiteful over how Shipachyov was treated IMO.
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Evgeny Oliker
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So what happened to him in the AHL last season? He could not adjust to the speed of the NA game? Or something else?
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