Larry Brooks: Vitaly Kravtsov headed back to the KHL

UnSandvich

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At least he'll actually get playing time and a decent salary. Should've made the NHL roster to start the season though, along with Chytil.
 
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SnowFort

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Perhaps not ideal, how the year has begun for him. But whatever, he’ll be here next year.
 

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Just another in a string of poor draft picks led by Gordie Clark. What else is new? He let the Islanders get Wahlstrom and Dobson who are both on the NHL team while he drafts a player who flees to the KHL at the first sign of adversity. This does not bode well for his future. You'd like to see him fight through struggles and get used to the game rather than just quit and go back to his comfort zone. We've seen this before from other European players too. Mikhail Grigorenko, Jesse Puljujarvi, and Nail Yakupov all went back to Europe after struggling out of the gate to the pro game in the NHL and haven't seen the NHL since. Val Nichushkin went there, came back, and hasn't scored a single goal in 62 games since then. Late firsts are when you gamble on these type of guys. With a top 10 pick you need to go with more of the sure thing as opposed to the player who has options outside of the NHL.
 

Oscar Lindberg

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So if the Rangers wanted to call him up in like say December, in the middle of the KHL season after he’s signed a contract, he can just leave?

That’s interesting
 

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Just another in a string of poor draft picks led by Gordie Clark. What else is new? He let the Islanders get Wahlstrom and Dobson who are both on the NHL team while he drafts a player who flees to the KHL at the first sign of adversity. This does not bode well for his future. You'd like to see him fight through struggles and get used to the game rather than just quit and go back to his comfort zone. We've seen this before from other European players too. Mikhail Grigorenko, Jesse Puljujarvi, and Nail Yakupov all went back to Europe after struggling out of the gate to the pro game in the NHL and haven't seen the NHL since. Val Nichushkin went there, came back, and hasn't scored a single goal in 62 games since then. Late firsts are when you gamble on these type of guys. With a top 10 pick you need to go with more of the sure thing as opposed to the player who has options outside of the NHL.
I feel like this is a parody sandwiched between two legitimate points
 

GeorgeKaplan

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I just hope he doesn’t get the Ronning’s final year of juniors experience where he’s asked to shoulder the entire teams offense by cherry picking
 

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