Prospect Info: Round 1, 7th overall: Matvei Michkov, RW, SKA St. Petersburg (KHL)

[Deadpool8812]

Ovechkin is well bellow avg defensively as well and no one gives a shit

 

[Striiker]

 

[BenchBrawl]

Montreal fan for over 40 years in exil here. Contemplating becoming a Flyers fan, a team I always admired with a rich history.

 

[CSKA1974]

Ovechkin is well bellow avg defensively as well and no one gives a shit

Trotz did

 

[Deadpool8812]

Montreal fan for over 40 years in exil here. Contemplating becoming a Flyers fan, a team I always admired with a rich history.

No, don't do it. Trust me

 

[Striiker]

Bad language but made me laugh

 

[BenchBrawl]

No, don't do it. Trust me

Trust me, I'm doing it.

 

[smokey]

Great pick, superstar in the making etc. I just hope all the reports of him being an entitled cocky dickhead are overblown. Reading stuff that makes him seem like a worse version of Zegras character wise. Sure, he's young and has time to mature and why wouldn't you get mad at your team mates for not passing the puck to you at all times if you think you're the next Malkin. Even if you're 17 and playing with men in a pro league.

Hopefully in the future he can channel that dickhead attitude towards his opponents, and we could have a Marchand 2.0 on our hands. Unless ofc he's sent down the Fedotov route or worse. Three years is a long time for things to develop in Russia.

 

[Deadpool8812]

Trust me, I'm doing it.

No, don't do it

 

[Beef Invictus]

This is so debauched it would make the Marquis de Sade vomit.

I wonder what they could trade him for right now.

 

[Striiker]

Bad language but made me laugh

Ok WAY worse language but even funnier

Habs fans are struggling

 

[FlyerNutter]

@FlyerNutter you and I both know his Americanized first name primes him for huge things

Andreyevich?

 

[volnoir]

What fun is this pick? This thread would be 47 pages deep had they not picked Michkov.

Obviously stoked he fell to the Flyers!

 

[JABEE]

Bill Meltzer makes it sound like they are going to try to get him out of his contract early.

The story about his father is also weird and sad

 

[Beef Invictus]

I haven't been this pumped for a pick since Couturier

 

[CutOnDime97]

Torts won't speak through a translator. Will then be pissed the kid isn't responding to his coaching.

 

[Devonator]

Well my fellow Flyer fans....we finally did it right....we have got a franchise player here.....lets just hope we can get him over here sooner then later!! This is a great pick for us....even my most cynical flyer fans can applaud this!

 

[Striiker]

Yeah, let’s rush to get him over here so he can play on a horrific team and waste his ELC…

 

[Beef Invictus]

I must've gotten the good samples because most every game I watched he placed very tenaciously. He leaks so what. Every top offensive guy leaks because they read the play in advance for rush chances. He's not some SAWFT player, and he excels in tight spaces, with high end burst and edge work.

Sorry, Billy, no Leonard. And hopefully Tortorella isn't even coaching by then.

Bill's analysis is probably limited to "he's Russian so he must not defense"

 

[Deadpool8812]

Well my fellow Flyer fans....we finally did it right....we have got a franchise player here.....lets just hope we can get him over here sooner then later!! This is a great pick for us....even my most cynical flyer fans can applaud this!

I mean, we had a franchise player for a decade in Giroux, we just failed to build a proper team around him

 

[santapore]

f***

 

[Random Forest]

Crazy that of all the rumors & leaks of the last two weeks “Michkov came to Voorhees to meet with the admin” didn’t make it out.

 

[GKJ]

Crazy that of all the rumors & leaks of the last two weeks “Michkov came to Voorhees to meet with the admin” didn’t make it out.

the important information didn't get out. i guess leonard didn't surpass him internally

 

[Rebels57]

Is it too soon to buy a jersey? Or at least a shirsey?

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

I haven't been this pumped for a pick since Couturier

Couts was another guy who was talked about as a potential #1 pick, but fell for off the ice reasons (mono, in his case)....