It really wasn’t a great draft year period. It’s not like they chose Yakupov over quality players like the Sedins. Murray or Galchenyuk instead? Yay???
The guy had inflated stats from blowing the zone before any professional hockey player would ever think to do so, and floating at the far blue line. Watching him live in the OHL he was pretty ho-hum. Now he can go to the KHL and inflate his stats hoping for a NHL return one day. But I really don’t think he has that much to offer.
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