Throughout the first intermission of the Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Rangers sport on Saturday night time, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman introduced that the Montreal Canadiens had been readying themselves to go abroad and go to with their first-round decide from 2024 — Ivan Demidov.
The aim of the go to is to check-in with the fifth total decide — it’s a go to that the staff had deliberate the second they drafted the Russian ahead. The objective of the go to is to look at Demidov play, carry out and see first-hand how he’s creating. It’s anticipated, as nicely, that common supervisor Kent Hughes will probably be part of the journey and that it’s going to happen within the coming weeks to months.
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The go to additionally comes at a peculiar time as Demidov has seen a lower in taking part in time together with his KHL membership — SKA St. Petersburg — as there was some hypothesis that he hasn’t been prepared to signal an extension with SKA. Different stories have his diminished ice time stacked as much as inside competitors and needing to combat for ice-time. Both means, Demidov is seeing much less ice-time in what may very well be a pivotal 12 months for the participant in addition to the Canadiens in the case of their 2024 first-round decide.
At one level within the offseason, stories had Demidov contemplating himself SKA’s thirteenth ahead as he knew it may very well be a tough season forward. If the stories across the lack of an extension abroad is the explanation for his demotion in ice-time, this go to needs to be an fascinating one for Hughes and the remainder of the Canadiens workers heading over to see Demidov.
As for what he’s finished this season, Demidov has 5 targets and 10 factors in 17 video games to this point for SKA, even with the drop in ice-time.
