He is a highly skilled passer with elite vision, hockey IQ, and an accurate whip shot that changed the sport(mimicks abound) that puts him at the hall of fame level of production.
He's nothing like the towering Russian or Crosby in terms of style or body and while Demidov is also more comparable to Bedard than either, I think his 200 foot game is more comparable in potential to Cellibrini .
The one argument against drafting Demidov would be that you have your offensive freak show points train in Bedard and are hunting for everything else to support it .
The Hawks were wrong and over thought that aspect, fooled themselves but it's the only explanation I can muster...hoping they wouldn't actually let the Canadians do their usual character smear tactics to drop a player pre-draft.
I'm pretty happy with Davidson overall...but I don't know what the **** he did here and it's a near fireable offense I have to overlook because the farm might be better than it's ever been.
Phase two is retaining this club value while waiting for the elite in this large group to emerge and develop.
Gotta trade 28 year old Danato's along the way and it's gonna suck.
Really should have traded Kurashev last year and that's gonna repeatedly haunt him into doing the deadline dirty to Donato.
