He was regarded as one of the best prospects in the world. I do remember that. However, his problem is people since then have been drafted and progressed at a better rate then him. This will be Kravstov's what, D+4 year? Normally you expect a top-1o pick to be a little more ahead of the curve by now. '
If you look at the prospects already voted in, they are all 2019 draft or later. Even if you look at all of the other voting options, they were drafted 2019 or later. Kravstov is just developing too slow for a top-10 pick to be voted right now, and let alone get a "AINEC" with it. I just looked at his stats and he hasn't scored at a 0.5 points per game pace at a club level since 2016-17 in the MHL.
He was ranked #1 by Craig Button
I agree with much of what you said, he has taken longer to develop (as many players in the KHL do). He had a really rough season in 2019-20 when he bounced around between the AHL, KHL & VHL. But last season he was one of the best young players in the KHL, and on the Rangers despite not producing (he was mostly on the 4th line) he was easily our best player in the majority of the games. The KHL is a far lower scoring league than the NHL too so you're just looking at raw numbers when he was the leading goal scorer on his team at 21 years old. Players do not score a lot in the KHL, especially not young players. Also look at his playoff stats which are excellent.
He scored 1 goal in 6 games in the KHL (youngest player in KHL history to score a playoff goal) & 6pts in 5 games in the MHL in his
D-2 season
6 goals 5 assists for 11pts in 16 games in the KHL in his
D-1 season, most ever for a player his age, added to 4pts in 2 games in the MHL playoffs that year. 2pts in 4 games in the 18-19 KHL playoffs, then 4pts in 5 games in the 20-21 KHL playoffs.
So from 16-17 to 20-21 he has produced at 0.74PPG in the playoffs.
Have you watched his games in the NHL? Go read through the GDT's, he was our best player in most of them. Don't just look at points as he was playing on the 4th line almost the entire time and didn't get any PP time either. He also had comical bad luck, his first NHL goal was taken back on a coaches challenge for offside, he nearly scored a gorgeous falling down GWG goal in the dying seconds of his first NHL game and got absolutely robbed, he hit like 20 posts/crossbars in 20 games, he had 2 assists that were for some reason not credited to him that were clearly his. He was our first forward back on the backcheck every single shift, and the majority of the time was back before the second defenseman even got back. He looked miles better than Kakko or Lafreniere
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