- His breakout season was during the 04-05 lockout, it was something to talk about during those hockey starved days, naturally contributing to a lot of the hype he got
- He spent almost two full seasons in Russia after the lockout, so he spent a long time in the organization as a prospect, unlike Filatov or Bochenski who were more of a flash in the pan in terms of their time spent as Senators
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Who were the other drafting options when Alexei Kaigorodov was being drafted by good ol Mucks?
He's the reason the Sens didn't draft another Russian again.
He was a colossal bust and it wasn't really until recently with Filatov that Ottawa actually looked at a russian prospect.
Russians drafted by the Sens after Kaigorodov (2002):
Ruslan Bashkirov (2007)
Vitali Anikeyenko (2005)
Ilya Zubov (2005)
Dmitry Megalinsky (2005)
Kirill Lyamin (2004)
Alexander Nikulin (2004)
Igor Mirnov (2003)
Sergei Gimayev (2003)
Now if you want to say we never drafted Russians after Kaigorodov bombed, that's fair, but there's still Bashkirov. I think it's more accurate to say that we haven't looked there since Murray took over. I don't believe it's any kind of "racism" by Murray, it's simply that he recognised that we needed prospect help Right ****ing Now and we couldn't afford to wait the 4 or 5 years it would take for a Russian prospect to potentially come over.
We also too more overagers (Zach Smith, Emil Sandin, Mike Hoffman, Corey Cowick...) and less NCAA players with our higher picks, for the same reason. We needed players quickly.
Why kidding about Lehner? He is seriously hyped, but like I said earlier in the thread, people might be right on this one
Let's hope that's true, the Sens haven't exactly had a great track record of developing hyped players in the past (with, of course, the exception of Spezza, Karlsson, and maybe others).
Brennan didn't say anything bad about Karlsson. He quoted some fan in his draft article.
Imagine a clueless hockey fan...
A journalist's job is to disseminate information. Brennan chose to quote an uninformed fan on Ottawa drafting Karlsson, rather than go to the experts (eg the scouting/management team) who actually had insight into why Ottawa drafted Karlsson. For that, Brennan deserves to be held accountable.
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A journalist's job is to disseminate information. Brennan chose to quote an uninformed fan on Ottawa drafting Karlsson, rather than go to the experts (eg the scouting/management team) who actually had insight into why Ottawa drafted Karlsson. For that, Brennan deserves to be held accountable.
