Russian Restrictions Impact on NHL and Player Debuts

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00:00A couple of interesting things there.

00:05The story of what's wrong with them.

00:09And then the kid that you're talking about, the Russian from the Flyers that Mishkov that

00:18he's a stud, but that you were talking about how in Russia, in the K, because of the war

00:25in Ukraine and because everyone has banned them from being in international competitions

00:31and everything else that they're saying, OK, we can play that game, too.

00:35How about you're not having any of our players play anywhere in the NHL or otherwise?

00:39What is going on there?

00:41Yeah, Russia used to be, you know, obviously, we grew up in an era where Russians couldn't

00:46play in the National Hockey League, right?

00:49For people that are younger don't realize, you know, there was there were no Russians

00:52in the league and it didn't start to happen until the 80s and then, you know, the flow

00:56into the 90s.

00:58But yeah, because of the geopolitical stuff going on, Russia cut off from the international

01:02sports world.

01:03They became the KHL, which is their professional league.

01:07They used to be more open to, you know, playing the KHL for a year and go like they didn't

01:12mind because it made Russian hockey look good.

01:14All their players in the NHL now they're like, why are we providing talent for countries

01:19that hate us, in their opinion, right?

01:22And so they they tightened up letting players go.

01:26So yeah, this long story short, this Mishkoff guy that the Flyers got, I bet him to win

01:30rookie of the year.

01:32He's not a lock to win.

01:33He was the favorite to win.

01:35But the thing with Mishkoff, he's sort of like a basketball player, Scott, that's coming

01:38over from Europe that already played in the Euroleague, you know, like it's is it a step

01:44up playing in the NHL a bit.

01:46But he's not coming from the Gulf Storm, bro.

01:49He's not coming from the Minnesota Golden Gophers, right?

01:52He's coming from the KHL.

01:54He plays for Russia.

01:55He's playing the KHL has a lot of, you know, a lot of former NHL guys, a lot of good Russian

01:59players, obviously.

02:01So he's played in a in a in an elite hockey league as a young as a kid already for so

02:08and he's already proven he can play against men.

02:11So showing up in the NHL, he's going to have a little bit less of a learning curve, his

02:14learning curve.

02:15And he scored two goals last night, guys.

02:17So he scored his first two goals of the season last night against the Oilers, sort of his

02:21coming out party for him, Scott, has been his biggest learning curve will be dealing

02:25with Tortorella.

02:26Right.

02:27Tortorella is, you know, Tortorella is a hard ass, so he's going to have to play at both

02:31ends of the rink.

02:32He can't coast around when he doesn't have the puck, otherwise he won't get ice time.

02:36But so far, so good.

02:37Tortorella loves him.

02:38The Flyers love him.

02:39Like I said, he delivered last night.

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