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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
I'm unconvinced. It's easy to say "it's known in Russia" with nothing to back it up.
Kovalchuk was considered to be a top prospect long before the draft. Ovechkin was drafted by the Panthers because of leap years. Bure was drafted by the Wings but they couldn't prove he played enough games. If there was even a hint that this top, franchise altering prospect was eligible for the draft in 1999 and 2000, something would have spilled.
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Agreed.
Consider the World under 20 tournament (and under 18 tournament). Two years, at 18 and 19, is HUGE. There is no way that Russia could systematically get away with lying about players' ages. And once they went through the WJCs, they would be known commodities and it would be impossible to simply change their ages afterwards.
So no, not buying it at all.