Hockey agent Alexander Chernykh told that many hockey players selected as first picks in the NHL draft do not achieve great success.
The next National Hockey League (NHL) draft will take place in Las Vegas on the night of Friday to Saturday. Teams will select promising players and receive the rights to play in the league.
According to the NHL’s official website, six Russian hockey players were among the top 32 prospects in the current draft: forwards Ivan Demidov of SKA-1946, Igor Chernyshov of Dynamo, Nikita Artamonov of Torpedo and Matvey Gridin of Muskegon, as well as defensemen Anton Silaev of Torpedo and Matvey Shuravin of CSKA.
— Choosing a hockey player in the draft is a litmus test. Of course, for the guys, when they were selected in the draft, it’s prestige, for them it’s a nice little bonus. But as an agent, I take the project calmly. Of course, I’ll be happy for our guys if they get picked as high as possible. But there are many examples where we don’t see top draft picks at all. And there are also examples of hockey players, like Artemi Panarin, who went undrafted at all, but are now playing at a high level in the NHL. The same Dmitry Voronkov was drafted in the fourth round in 2019 and now plays in Columbus.
There are many stories when a hockey player was selected in the first or second round, but the club never called him. And there is, for example, Maxim Shabanov, who was not selected at all in the draft, but people call him and are interested in him. Petya Kochetkov in his year was not selected in the sixth or seventh round, and then went to the World Junior Championships, and Carolina selected him in the second round. So it is not a fact that hockey players who will be selected in the first or second round of the draft will play in the NHL. No one is immune from this, it all depends on the player himself. The NHL draft is a hockey show, but I take it calmly, “Chernykh told .
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