In the NHL – Russian trade. “Edmonton” and “St. Louis” exchanged leaders of the bronze youth team
Kostin goes to McDavid, Samorukov – to Tarasenko.
Do you remember the exchange of Russian hockey players in the NHL in the 1×1 format? Hardly. Hockey history of such cases is silent. Looks like a striker’s trade Klima Kostina to the defender Dmitry Samorukovwhich the St. Louis and Edmonton pulled off on Sunday is the first case.
It is surprising that the Russians have in common not only a fresh deal and one release in the draft, but also two other facts: until recently, two hockey players born in 1999 were the leaders of the youth team at the bronze MFM-2019 in Vancouver, and a few years before the call in the team of Valery Bragin they played against each other in the Moscow championship operation: the first – for Dynamo, the second – for CSKA. As it turned out, the problems of peers in the NHL are waiting for plus or minus events. Obama has almost outgrown the level of the AHL and seems to have finally stopped progressing in the farm clubs. So they didn’t stake it.
We wrote a text about all the troubles of Kostin in St. Louis back in the summer, when a native of Penza met a one-year contract with the Bluesmen. It was already clear then that they would not wait long for a breakthrough from the ex-captain of the youth team. Last year, the head coach of the Musicians, Craig Berubi, was not afraid of a sharp increase in the forward’s strength for stupid selections and in the second half of the regularity he preferred another Russian employer, Alexei Toropchenko, to him in the quarter.
So this offseason, Berubi didn’t replace the rhetoric, continuing to chastise student Bob Hartley in press conferences: “He needs to do more. He should be more involved in the game. I see insufficiency, ”the Canadian burst out during the marching camp. However, another moment was a much more dangerous indicator: even in the absence of leaders, Kostin, the head of pre-season matches, is only in the fourth link and receives an average of 10 minutes of playing time. How can you not wait when you are not given a chance even in exhibition games?
But if the graduate of the first round, Kostin, in five years with grief in half scored more than forty matches in the NHL, then Samorukov, supposed in the first round, has only one single game for the basis of Edmonton at the end of last December, which the Muscovite completely failed , earning “-2” in personal stats (number 58 in the video above). Do you know what irony is? The Oilers’ opponent in that meeting was… St. Louis. Could the defender, who was declassed and found himself after a terrible debut in a deep reserve, think that it was the Bluesmen who would get a chance to restart the NHL situation?
However, the powerful two-sided defender was not publicly given up as a bad job and was awarded a one-year contract. it is likely that Self-Guidance is quite capable of clinging on, at least for the place of the seventh quarterback of the Oilers. And in the course of this pre-season, the CSKA graduate looked quite good. For example, in the match with Vancouver, he earned +4 in the utility indicator, gave an assist and played without a single mistake. Except in the end, the Oilers initially opted to ship him to the AHL via a quick waiver draft, then bagged him to Missouri on Sunday.
Who benefited from this case? Definitely not Samorukov, “St. Louis” has already managed to send to the farm club. Shortly thereafter, several colleagues suggested that the Blues were hired to replace Scott Perunovich, who had been sidelined for six months. But the 24-year-old American is just his rotation player, and after moving to the place of the seventh reinforced concrete defender, he will go to the Swede Kalle Rosen. Therefore, why the boss of the “Musicians” Doug Armstrong needed another defender, while few people understand.
Klim Kostin.
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A little more advantageous was Kostin, who went to the team of Connor McDavid, who had found problems with depth in the results of the links for several years. In Edmonton, the central axis is in perfect order. But on the flanks, not everything is as rosy as the results can be. Only the positions of Zach Hyman, Kyler Yamamoto and the resurrected Evander Kane are unshakable here. Behind them are the ever-promising Finn Jesse Pulujärvi, the green goldfinch Dylan Holloway, as well as Klima’s stylistic twins Warren Voggele and Ryan McLeod. Throwing someone out of them is more than real.
The only story is that he started out in Alberta a Diesel alumnus, as well as a former youth partner, most likely lightweight in the AHL, which is why both Russians find themselves breaking out in the last two seasons. And if the change of fetus does not occur, then Kostin and Sukhorukov will inevitably end up in the KHL, where Avangard and CSKA, respectively, are waiting for them. However, MFM bronze medalists will always have time to return home.