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Originally Posted by saillias
My main concern with Russians is that we don't have any in the org that I know of - just one draft pick who's been blowing off the summer dev camp for 2 years. A lone Nichushkin might be kind of ronery, might be hard to adjust.
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We have some Europeans in the system so he wouldn't be the only non-north American. I think with the fact that hockey is such an international game, being the only Russian wouldn't be necessarily a negative. Heck, it could be argued that it's a positive since they like to be "the guy" so to speak.