Prospect development in Russia

[Atas2000]

question, how dose the vhl rank compared with n.a. hockey ? the pen's prospect tankov seems to be doing well but i have no idea what kind of level of team he is playing on.

Maybe slightly worse than the AHL. It really depends more on the org a player is with rather than the league in general. His production is pretty good for a 19y.o., the org he is with is good itself, but he will have little chance to play in the KHL with SKA. They have enough headaches with their logjam of young talent.

Other than that just look up other top prospects in the league and measure his production against them. Only a couple top 18y.o. prospects have a higher PPG. He is doing really good for a 7th rounder. 10 games into the season that is.

 

[wings5]

There are very few cases of kids having gone to North America at age 17 or 18 and succeeded. The vast majority fail and are out of hockey shortly thereafter. There seems to be no way back. In Soviet days, when you played for clubs like CSKA or Dynamo, you had to undergo rigorous training and skills development in order to reach a suitable degree of excellence. In modern times, there is no requirement for excellence or skills development. If you show talent you can go, and very few have enough talent, in the end, to sustain a successful career.

Sounds like there could be some players on the way in Dynamo hopefully

https://en.fhr.ru/news/item/82749/