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Mr. Kite
Aug 28, 2004

SHUT UP AND PLAY HOCKEY
Some drafts are like 2006 (Backstrom, Giroux, Kessel, Toews, Marchand). Other drafts are like 2012 (Forsberg, Hertl, Rielly, Teravainen, Galchenyuk). You never know what you're gonna get.

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Mr. Kite
Aug 28, 2004

SHUT UP AND PLAY HOCKEY
But is it worth it?

Mr. Kite
Aug 28, 2004

SHUT UP AND PLAY HOCKEY
If you believe his early stats, he's basically Russian Bedard.

pre:
	Age	League	GP	G	A	PTS		
2018-19 14	U16 	7 	7 	3 	10

2019-20	15	U16 	26 	70 	39 	109

2020-21	16 	MHL 	56 	38 	18 	56

2021-23	17	MHL 	28 	30 	21 	51

2022-23	18	KHL 	30 	9 	11 	20
And the one time they shared the ice, they were basically equal.

Mr. Kite
Aug 28, 2004

SHUT UP AND PLAY HOCKEY
Here are the stats of recent Russian players in thier pre-draft season in the KHL/RSL

pre:
		GP	G	A	PTS	PTS/GM
Michkov		27	9	11	20	0.7407407407
Cherepanov	47	18	11	29	0.6170212766
Tarasenko	42	13	11	24	0.5714285714
Ovechkin	53	13	10	23	0.4339622642
Panarin		20	1	7	8	0.4
Malkin		34	3	9	12	0.3529411765
Nichushkin	18	4	2	6	0.3333333333
Kaprizov	31	4	4	8	0.2580645161
Kuznetsov	35	2	7	9	0.2571428571
Kucherov	8	0	2	2	0.25
Buchnevich	12	1	1	2	0.1666666667
Gurianov	8	0	1	1	0.125
Dadonov		24	1	1	2	0.0833333333
It doesn't always correlate to NHL success. Not sure what happened to Cherepanov. If he was that good, he should have been in the NHL right away.

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