Making the case for Sharks to draft Matvei Michkov with No. 4 pick in NHL Draft
Matvei Michkov was four days from being 10 months old when Alex Ovechkin made his NHL debut in October 2005. The hype for prospects at the top of a draft class in any sport often wades too far into hyperbole, but when someone says Michkov is the best Russian prospect since Ovechkin and Evgeni Malkin were selected in 2004, there’s a pretty compelling argument that it is true. Michkov is certainly the most hyped, and the most accomplished. Nail Yakupov and Andrei Svechnikov are the only Russians selected in the top two since 2004, and both of them played in…
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