Jay is stupid (or whoever it is that gave him the marching orders) for wanting someone to step in next year.
Not quite sure what is stupid about considering taking an extremely talented and quite possibly very NHL ready 18 year old. If anything it is very smart to do so. If he was, say, Canadian would you be acting as childish about him? If he was arguably the most skilled and ready player and said he wanted to play in the NHL right away otherwise he would go to college would you call Feaster or any other GM stupid for drafting him?
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Not quite sure what is stupid about considering taking an extremely talented and quite possibly very NHL ready 18 year old. If anything it is very smart to do so. If he was, say, Canadian would you be acting as childish about him? If he was arguably the most skilled and ready player and said he wanted to play in the NHL right away otherwise he would go to college would you call Feaster or any other GM stupid for drafting him?
I have never been against drafting him but in all honesty, for me, more than him leaving for the KHL, I am worried if he will want to stay in Calgary. Its a good hockey market, but I just don't want to risk him being asked to be traded or leaving free agency etc. This is a risk for all prospects, but in general, how many russian stars have played on a Canadian team in the past 5-7 years.
Nurse isn't the sexiest pick that's for sure, but if he ends up hitting is ceiling as a Shea Weber type Dman in a few years, nobody will be too sad about it then.
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Nurse isn't the sexiest pick that's for sure, but if he ends up hitting is ceiling as a Shea Weber type Dman in a few years, nobody will be too sad about it then.
True but i'd rather take the high profile forward which are harder to draft then high end defensemen.
Nurse isn't the sexiest pick that's for sure, but if he ends up hitting is ceiling as a Shea Weber type Dman in a few years, nobody will be too sad about it then.
Yeah that's the thing. I'm not sure what it is, but Monahan and Lindholm scream Gagner and Backlund to me. Both are alright 3rd liners... possibly second liners, but Nurse seems like he's a sure fire top pairing Defenceman, which this team desperately needs.
I'm starting to think that I would rather take Nichushkin or Nurse over Monahan or Lindholm.
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I have no clue how Burmistrov or Nichushkin is off the ice, but I don't want a repeat of the Kostitsyn/Radulov missing curfew before a playoff game because they were clubbing.
Oh man, it was painful reading all the blowups on this thread after the whole Nichuskin rumor earlier.. Now allow me to give my take.
Does anybody realize that there's a very large chance Feaster and co. are taking a page straight out of Colorado's playbook (though for another purpose)? In fact, I bet Sakic and co. inspired Jay to make this move. If a #1 C is their preference, and Barkov, Monahan are their most desired pieces (after MacKinnon of course, but he's likely out of reach) and if they realize they might not be able to move up come draft time and those two pieces could be gone before #6, wouldn't you go and pump the tires of the one other player who is high profile enough to be chosen in the top 5? By putting out the image that they're very comfortable with Nichuskin, and have it look like they're getting the piece they want, the Nashvilles, Carolinas might take another couple glances at the kid to see what all the fuss (or lack thereof) is about. It makes too much sense, and it's smart. If the Flames look like they have his whole russian factor situation sorted out, then maybe those teams will think they missed something with him. If Jay gets his way, then the chance of one of the center prospects falling into his lap increases substantially.
But personally I'd actually be quite happy even if they did take Nichuskin.
In all likely hood, if he's considered on the same level as MacKinnon and Drouin, we'd have our own future Ovechkin suiting up for us next season. I'm not going to cry about that.. lol.
Oh man, it was painful reading all the blowups on this thread after the whole Nichuskin rumor earlier.. Now allow me to give my take.
Does anybody realize that there's a very large chance Feaster and co. are taking a page straight out of Colorado's playbook (though for another purpose)? In fact, I bet Sakic and co. inspired Jay to make this move. If a #1 C is their preference, and Barkov, Monahan are their most desired pieces (after MacKinnon of course, but he's likely out of reach) and if they realize they might not be able to move up come draft time and those two pieces could be gone before #6, wouldn't you go and pump the tires of the one other player who is high profile enough to be chosen in the top 5? By putting out the image that they're very comfortable with Nichuskin, and have it look like they're getting the piece they want, then the Nashvilles, Carolinas might take another couple glances at the kid to see what all the fuss (or lack thereof) is about. It makes too much sense, and it's smart. If the Flames look like they have his whole russian factor situation sorted out, then maybe those teams will think they missed something with him. If Jay gets his way, then the possibility of one of the desired center prospects falling into his lap increases by half.
Clever.
I think there is about a 0 percent chance that other teams doing any scouting based on what Feaster says or doesn't say.
Can't imagine anything said by any GM in the media that would affect how another team does business, approaches the drafts or deals with them.
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Is there a highlight vid that shows he can do other things than just go wide with speed and tuck the puck in (mostly weak goals IMO)
How about a sick pass, a nice top shelf wrist shot, can he even slap a shot?
Huge pass, if he's just a puck hog he'll be back in russia very quick.
Passes, shots, one timers and terrible euro trance techno. All you could want on Nichushkin from a youtube video!
But really, the only thing that matters is where the puck ends up. In front of the net almost all of the time. we have finishers in Sven and Glencross who can clean up after him.
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I think he has too many elements of his game together already to not do well in this league. There was mention that his shot could use some work (accuracy), but that could be worked on and improved, easily. The way he can deeke out defensemen and just power his way up the ice without being affected by sticks or checks is probably the most impressive of any in this draft though.
