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"He's as big and powerful a forward that has come down the pipe in a long time," assistant general manager Paul Fenton said. "He takes pucks through people. He can throw people out of the way. He can take pucks to the net, he can score, he can make plays, and he is a complete power forward."

"It's just who is available," Fenton said. "We're taking the best hockey player that we can. Nationality aside and circumstances that happened — we can't be that narrow-minded to think that every situation is going to turn out like that."

"Every case is different. Certainly Radulov is not a great subject around our organization because he did decide to go back there and leverage whatever he had and enjoys playing there," Fenton said. "Each case is individual, and Nichushkin is a guy that is telling us he wants to play over here. He's acclimating, they've got him out of his contract and he could be a guy that's staring us in the face."

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