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Russian Restrictions Impact on NHL and Player Debuts
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10/16/2024
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A couple of interesting things there.
00:05
The story of what's wrong with them.
00:09
And then the kid that you're talking about, the Russian from the Flyers that Mishkov that
00:18
he's a stud, but that you were talking about how in Russia, in the K, because of the war
00:25
in Ukraine and because everyone has banned them from being in international competitions
00:31
and everything else that they're saying, OK, we can play that game, too.
00:35
How about you're not having any of our players play anywhere in the NHL or otherwise?
00:39
What is going on there?
00:41
Yeah, Russia used to be, you know, obviously, we grew up in an era where Russians couldn't
00:46
play in the National Hockey League, right?
00:49
For people that are younger don't realize, you know, there was there were no Russians
00:52
in the league and it didn't start to happen until the 80s and then, you know, the flow
00:56
into the 90s.
00:58
But yeah, because of the geopolitical stuff going on, Russia cut off from the international
01:02
sports world.
01:03
They became the KHL, which is their professional league.
01:07
They used to be more open to, you know, playing the KHL for a year and go like they didn't
01:12
mind because it made Russian hockey look good.
01:14
All their players in the NHL now they're like, why are we providing talent for countries
01:19
that hate us, in their opinion, right?
01:22
And so they they tightened up letting players go.
01:26
So yeah, this long story short, this Mishkoff guy that the Flyers got, I bet him to win
01:30
rookie of the year.
01:32
He's not a lock to win.
01:33
He was the favorite to win.
01:35
But the thing with Mishkoff, he's sort of like a basketball player, Scott, that's coming
01:38
over from Europe that already played in the Euroleague, you know, like it's is it a step
01:44
up playing in the NHL a bit.
01:46
But he's not coming from the Gulf Storm, bro.
01:49
He's not coming from the Minnesota Golden Gophers, right?
01:52
He's coming from the KHL.
01:54
He plays for Russia.
01:55
He's playing the KHL has a lot of, you know, a lot of former NHL guys, a lot of good Russian
01:59
players, obviously.
02:01
So he's played in a in a in an elite hockey league as a young as a kid already for so
02:08
and he's already proven he can play against men.
02:11
So showing up in the NHL, he's going to have a little bit less of a learning curve, his
02:14
learning curve.
02:15
And he scored two goals last night, guys.
02:17
So he scored his first two goals of the season last night against the Oilers, sort of his
02:21
coming out party for him, Scott, has been his biggest learning curve will be dealing
02:25
with Tortorella.
02:26
Right.
02:27
Tortorella is, you know, Tortorella is a hard ass, so he's going to have to play at both
02:31
ends of the rink.
02:32
He can't coast around when he doesn't have the puck, otherwise he won't get ice time.
02:36
But so far, so good.
02:37
Tortorella loves him.
02:38
The Flyers love him.
02:39
Like I said, he delivered last night.
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