Earlier this month, THW's Mike Coll…
Pittsburgh PenguinsAnton Slepyshev THW Close-Up: Date of birth: 5/13/1994 Place of birth: Penza, RUS Ht: 6’2″ Wt: 187 Shoots: Right Position: LW NHL Draft Eligibility: 2012 1st year eligible THW Final Rankings: 47th THW Fantasy-based Rankings: 20th Other Rankings: Craig Button: 57th ISS: 35th Hockey Prospectus: 17th NHLNumbers: 38th The crafty offensive forward was the 1st pick overall ...
Nail Yakupov THW Close-Up:
Nail Yakupov. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins. Taylor Hall. John Tavares. Steven Stamkos.
Detailed hockey analytics are not required to decipher the connection between the above five hockey players.
No matter how hockey media and the experts tried to convince hockey fans, there was ultimately no doubt as to who would get drafted first overall in the past four drafts. Nail Yakupov looks to make it five years running that this trend continues.
“Because a player is from Russia, will their draft stock drop?” - Is this still a valid question? For many years this has been the case with the likes of Alexei Cherepanov, Viktor Tikhonov, Alexander Khokhlachev, and even some higher profile names like Kirill Kabanov and Dmitri Kulikov. Russian hockey player’s reputations have been branded ...
