Posts About "Valentin Zykov"
Hurricanes Hockey, Painful but Entertaining
March 26th, 2018 Carolina Hurricanes hockey is on familiar ground. It's the end of the season and the team is playing out a string of essentially meaningless games. At times it can be painful to watch the collective lack of effort, while at other times it can be very entertaining. There are only seven games left for the Hurricanes to play this season....
Hurricanes Peters: "Zykov Sample-Size Needs to Be Bigger"
March 26th, 2018 Valentin Zykov is a difference-maker. The Carolina Hurricanes' forward is showing in the short time he has been playing on NHL ice that he might be a puzzle piece that has eluded the team for several years, that of a scoring forward they desperately need. While a sample size of a handful of games is far from conclusive, this recent look...
Valentin Zykov - Hurricanes Last Grasp for Playoffs Ladder?
March 12th, 2018 The Carolina Hurricanes announced Sunday night that they have called up Valentin Zykov from the Charlotte Checkers. Does the call-up represent a last grasp at the playoffs or is it simply that they've acknowledged that they're out of the playoffs so, 'let's call some guys up and give them a look'? The answer likely lies somewhere in...
Los Angeles Kings - Top 5 Prospects
August 13th, 2014 Dean Lombardi is a brilliant general manager. With the exception of Marian Gaborik, there is no one on the current Los Angeles Kings roster with any sort of a no-movement clause or no-trade clause. And still, the Kings remain one of the toughest teams to beat. Even when Lombardi traded some roster players he supplanted them by calling up...
LA Kings 2014 Development Camp: Day 1
July 8th, 2014 LA Kings Development Camp: Day 1 LA's newest Kings took over El Segundo yesterday. Top 2014 draft picks like Adrian Kempe, Roland McKeown, and Alex Lintuniemi stepped on the ice for the first time as Kings. Coaches used Tanner Pearson's readiness to pass as a teaching example and drilled, "Always shoot a rolling puck!" And Dean...
5 Team Russia Players to Watch For at World Junior Championships
December 15th, 2013 We took a look at Team Canada and Team USA's rosters. Next on the World Junior Championships agenda is Team Russia. Having won Gold in 2011 and medaling in the last two tournaments, Russia will come into Malmö with plenty of momentum. They'll look for another strong performance with a number of impact players returning from last...
