Article: The Wild Highlighted Their Bright Future At Forward During the Kurvers Showcase

[Neil Urbanski]

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[Scalptrash]

At 176 pounds, Yurov won't last long as a center in the NHL. He won't have the strength or stamina for a full season of beatings, all while trying to learn North American NHL hockey. He should absolutely spend a year in Iowa or he'll be the next Marat.

[Pewterschmidt]

12 minutes ago, Scalptrash said:

At 176 pounds, Yurov won't last long as a center in the NHL. He won't have the strength or stamina for a full season of beatings, all while trying to learn North American NHL hockey. He should absolutely spend a year in Iowa or he'll be the next Marat.

The fanboys have been waiting for this white knight to ride in and save the org. Since his draft + all the KHL hype.  The wait is almost over.  Spoiler: he looked like Conner Dewar light at the prospect camp games

[Enforceror]

33 minutes ago, Scalptrash said:

At 176 pounds, Yurov won't last long as a center in the NHL

Updated height/weight we're released for the Kurver's games via roster. Lot's of players adding bulk this offseason it would seem. 

[MNCountryLife]

195 pounds at 6'1'' is much better.  I really do hope this is the year for some of the young guys to prove they belong.  Good luck to Yurov, Ohgren, Buium, Jiricek, Lambos and the rest of the young guys.  Make a difference.

[FredJohnson]

Every guy that's not 6 foot and 200 lbs + is a guaranteed bust. 
 

[FredJohnson]

2 hours ago, Pewterschmidt said:

The fanboys have been waiting for this white knight to ride in and save the org. Since his draft + all the KHL hype.  The wait is almost over.  Spoiler: he looked like Conner Dewar light at the prospect camp games

Shots fired!

[FredJohnson]

4 hours ago, Enforceror said:

Updated height/weight we're released for the Kurver's games via roster. Lot's of players adding bulk this offseason it would seem. 

Too fat!

[Outskated]

Yurov was not very impressive at all!  He will need to start the year in Iowa, no way he makes the roster over Ohgren.   

[bisopher]

Nice to see Riley Heidt at 5'11", 194 lbs. at age 20. Looks like he got the "bulk up" memo.

[1Brotherbill]

9 hours ago, Scalptrash said:

At 176 pounds, Yurov won't last long as a center in the NHL. He won't have the strength or stamina for a full season of beatings, all while trying to learn North American NHL hockey. He should absolutely spend a year in Iowa or he'll be the next Marat.

Marco Rossi 5'9" 183.  Is the current Wild Ironman with over 160 games played consecutively.  Yurov will be fine as is.  Marat turned out to be not very good. 

[Scalptrash]

13 hours ago, 1Brotherbill said:

Marco Rossi 5'9" 183.  Is the current Wild Ironman with over 160 games played consecutively.  Yurov will be fine as is.  Marat turned out to be not very good. 

Marat was thrown to the wolves. He may turn out fine and be a solid bottom six player, not every Russian is going to be Kaprizov. Nobody knows how Yurov will do. From the things I've seen and read, he was a mild disappointment at the Prospect Showcase and that wasn't against real NHL competition. I could see a similar start to Rossi. 20 or so games and then off to Iowa for the rest of the season. We'll see soon enough.

[FredJohnson]

17 hours ago, Outskated said:

Yurov was not very impressive at all!  He will need to start the year in Iowa, no way he makes the roster over Ohgren.   

[1Brotherbill]

10 hours ago, Scalptrash said:

Marat was thrown to the wolves. He may turn out fine and be a solid bottom six player, not every Russian is going to be Kaprizov. Nobody knows how Yurov will do. From the things I've seen and read, he was a mild disappointment at the Prospect Showcase and that wasn't against real NHL competition. I could see a similar start to Rossi. 20 or so games and then off to Iowa for the rest of the season. We'll see soon enough.

Marat has played 91 NHL games and he has 16 points.  He will play most of the season for Boston at their AHL team.  Boston a team that might get the first overall pick next year and Marat probably won't play for them at all this year.  

The Wild drafted him to be a top six guy and it turned out he was not even a bottom six guy.  Granted they could have traded him for something better than Brazeau but he still needed to be traded. 

[Scalptrash]

11 hours ago, 1Brotherbill said:

Marat has played 91 NHL games and he has 16 points.  He will play most of the season for Boston at their AHL team.  Boston a team that might get the first overall pick next year and Marat probably won't play for them at all this year.  

The Wild drafted him to be a top six guy and it turned out he was not even a bottom six guy.  Granted they could have traded him for something better than Brazeau but he still needed to be traded. 

He's 23 and played one year in the NHL. Like I said, he needs at least a year in the AHL. Like Yurov will show, not every Russian is Kirill Kaprizov. We'll see.

[Pewterschmidt]

14 minutes ago, Scalptrash said:

He's 23 and played one year in the NHL. Like I said, he needs at least a year in the AHL. Like Yurov will show, not every Russian is Kirill Kaprizov. We'll see.

Guerin cutting bait on this second rd pick so quickly and getting literally nothing in return is a problem

[raithis]

4 hours ago, Pewterschmidt said:

Guerin cutting bait on this second rd pick so quickly and getting literally nothing in return is a problem

I don't know that it was so much cutting bait on him as trying to bring in a type of player we didn't have enough of.  Up until that point, Brazeau had scored 10 goals and 10 assists in 57 games for the Bruins.  He had 5 goals and 2 assists the prior year in 19 games.  He seemed like someone you could put by the goal and he'd chip in a goal every 5-6 games. 

On paper, Lauko and Marat for that sounds like a good trade.  In reality, he wasn't able to continue the same production he had in Boston.  Either he wasn't used in the same way, or perhaps he was put with better players.  Not sure, but it certainly doesn't look like Guerin (or whichever scout suggested him) did his research before that trade was made. 

Not saying that Marat will ever be a good player, but I agree that the Wild should have gotten more from trading him.