He was the one who actually got in contact with the Flyers organization first and told them he wanted to be a Flyer. I’m not sure his reasons but the Flyers are very lucky!
@@SirHimothyyI’m a flyers fan and the only thing that makes sense to me why he wanted to come to Philly so bad was because he knew Philly would wait for him. Knowing we’re in a rebuild process he probably figured they can wait the 3 years
My personal opinion, is he sees Philly is lacking a superstar and is an incredibly loyal and passionate fanbase. He knows he’s one of the best young talent and maybe he wants to be the ones the fans LOVE and he’s the star of the city
@@SirHimothyy Flyers are big in russia. You got to remember the Flyers were the first team to beat Russia back in the day. Also, I also forget his name but there is an American who lives in Russia who trained or coached Matvei and he has connections to the flyers. I believe his father might have liked the Flyers a bit too.
I would rather he come at the end of next season (2025) because they have many picks esp in the first two rounds in next year's supposedly deep draft so I would prefer they be a bottom third team so they can draft the future nucleus to put around #39!!!
So far, he has nothing as a GM. He ruined the relationship with Cutter and had to trade him in panic. The fact that people give him credit for drafting Michkov is crazy. Michkov fell to the flyers because of political and contract reasons.
Tolvanen and Kuznetsov scored their points in their D+1 seasons while Michkov did it in his draft season. His D+1 season was better than both Tolvanen's and Kuznetsov's. It was the best ever by PPG actually for all D+1 players in the KHL history.
Honestly I hope for the Flyers that when he gets there he plays how Torts is getting the team to play…. as soon as I saw Yakupov on the thumbnail I thought about how good he was at the draft
Michkov said that he was looking forward to the Flyers 2024 camp and expects to make the team. His agent tweeted it. The tweet was quickly taken down when the error was realized. He has to be really careful about how he leaves Russia. They aren't a free nation and if they don't want him to leave, he'll have to sneak out of the country.
@@tonybleau6219 Michkov's agent posted on X that Michkov stated that he was looking forward to the 2024 training camp and looking forward to being a Flyer in the 2024-2025 season. As soon as he realized that he was putting Michkov in physical danger, he took it down. So, the source would be second hand from Michkov.
@@tonybleau6219 Yeah. I know someone that said they saw the "tweet" (I don't know what to call it now that it's "X") and he's a guy I trust. But, who knows? He could be full of shit. We'll see. As a Flyers fan, I'm hoping it's true. He was ranked higher than Bedard for awhile, then Michkov got mono and loaned to a terrible team. It killed his ranking. However, in the pre-draft interviews, supposedly, he asked other teams not to draft him and asked the Flyers to take him. So from the rumor mill, it seems he really wants to be part of their rebuild and play next season. I'm not him or his agent so I can only go off second hand stuff. I'd love to have a screen cap of it or something to have definitive evidence.... but..... you know. It is what it is.
@@darthollpheist1156 It would be really cool! I'm no Flyers fan but I'm certainly a Michkov fan and I really want to see him come to NA to play for you guys 👌 I was pissed to see Cutter doing what he did btw. Those two together would have been absolutely lethal for years to come and I unfortunately don't see the same level of potential in Drysdale.
Yes, the reason was simply he did not want to compete or have to play in the AHL. He believed on this current Flyers team he deserved to be a top 6 forward and wouldn’t be willing to try to “earn” a spot. And Briere wanted to sign both Michkov and Cutter around the same time to save $ and create a good team.
Hadn't heard that one before, interesting theory. I still think it has more to do with the decision to "make" the team and "play" was going to be up to him and his agent. When the Flyers have coaches in place to do just that. It's their decision, or simply put, the tail doesn't wag the dog. Because management has a better idea what's best for the team, getting everyone to be available at the same time, with regards to salaries, cap etc.
He told them he didn’t want to go there, they made the right choice not drafting him, will they regret who they picked maybe but they shouldn’t regret not picking him because he wouldn’t have gone
every team that picked 2-6 overall that year will regret it if/when he gets here. bedard is the only player you can take before michkov, any other choice is going to look horrible in 5 years or so i feel
@@Boredhockeytime1776did u see hftv tweet about that… If you think he didn’t want to be a Hab, when hftv told him : that he’d love for him to be a Hab, he said: “All they need to do is pick me”
On the one hand you had a guy Gauthier who didn’t want to play for the Flyers. On the other hand you had this Russian who did everything in his power to make sure he got to play for his dream NHL team the Flyers. Philly fans will love him
cant wait to see him in the Orange and Black!!!
See your soon brother!
Let’s go Flyers!!!
Flyers needed this so badly. Generational talent at a discount price.
Watching this after he's signed ELC makes this so sweet
Kid is gonna be a stud. Hopefully the Flyers can get him a legit centre before he does.
One thing to note, the Flyers secretly hosted Michkov during the draft process and was the only team to host him pre-draft.
He was the one who actually got in contact with the Flyers organization first and told them he wanted to be a Flyer. I’m not sure his reasons but the Flyers are very lucky!
@@SirHimothyyI’m a flyers fan and the only thing that makes sense to me why he wanted to come to Philly so bad was because he knew Philly would wait for him. Knowing we’re in a rebuild process he probably figured they can wait the 3 years
My personal opinion, is he sees Philly is lacking a superstar and is an incredibly loyal and passionate fanbase. He knows he’s one of the best young talent and maybe he wants to be the ones the fans LOVE and he’s the star of the city
@@stevenborger7664turn out you might have only waited 1 season 🔥🔥🔥
@@SirHimothyy Flyers are big in russia. You got to remember the Flyers were the first team to beat Russia back in the day. Also, I also forget his name but there is an American who lives in Russia who trained or coached Matvei and he has connections to the flyers. I believe his father might have liked the Flyers a bit too.
And now he’s here😭😭
He's gonna term his contract, flyers gonna get him 24 25 season, our historic awful power play is finally saved! Go Flyers!
Cutter who?
I hear that, but imagining these kids playing on a line together would've been a dream
lol you realize the flyers, mainly Briere, fucked that whole thing up. Not Cutter, Briere fucked it up.
Let's Go Flyers!
If Ivan Fedotov made it, I don’t see why Michkov couldn’t make it to the NHL.
Different contract situations
also michkov is said to be a generational talent, Russia is probably gonna do more to keep him than someone like Fedotov.
@@johncody4259 same agent.
I would rather he come at the end of next season (2025) because they have many picks esp in the first two rounds in next year's supposedly deep draft so I would prefer they be a bottom third team so they can draft the future nucleus to put around #39!!!
I loved Briere as a play and love him as a GM
So far, he has nothing as a GM. He ruined the relationship with Cutter and had to trade him in panic. The fact that people give him credit for drafting Michkov is crazy. Michkov fell to the flyers because of political and contract reasons.
It’s going to be another version of Crosby and Ovechkin.
Philly will welcome him baby......we have a future star ......an actual true scorer
Tolvanen and Kuznetsov scored their points in their D+1 seasons while Michkov did it in his draft season. His D+1 season was better than both Tolvanen's and Kuznetsov's. It was the best ever by PPG actually for all D+1 players in the KHL history.
Ilya Fedotov? Is he taller than Ivan?
And it looks like there is a chance he'll come for the next season...
🤘🤞
Honestly I hope for the Flyers that when he gets there he plays how Torts is getting the team to play…. as soon as I saw Yakupov on the thumbnail I thought about how good he was at the draft
He really wanted to come to Flyers, he wants to get Cup for the City
Michkov said that he was looking forward to the Flyers 2024 camp and expects to make the team. His agent tweeted it. The tweet was quickly taken down when the error was realized. He has to be really careful about how he leaves Russia. They aren't a free nation and if they don't want him to leave, he'll have to sneak out of the country.
Source?
@@tonybleau6219 Michkov's agent posted on X that Michkov stated that he was looking forward to the 2024 training camp and looking forward to being a Flyer in the 2024-2025 season.
As soon as he realized that he was putting Michkov in physical danger, he took it down. So, the source would be second hand from Michkov.
@@darthollpheist1156 I had heard about that but do you really think it's legit?
@@tonybleau6219 Yeah. I know someone that said they saw the "tweet" (I don't know what to call it now that it's "X") and he's a guy I trust. But, who knows? He could be full of shit. We'll see.
As a Flyers fan, I'm hoping it's true. He was ranked higher than Bedard for awhile, then Michkov got mono and loaned to a terrible team. It killed his ranking. However, in the pre-draft interviews, supposedly, he asked other teams not to draft him and asked the Flyers to take him.
So from the rumor mill, it seems he really wants to be part of their rebuild and play next season.
I'm not him or his agent so I can only go off second hand stuff. I'd love to have a screen cap of it or something to have definitive evidence.... but..... you know. It is what it is.
@@darthollpheist1156 It would be really cool! I'm no Flyers fan but I'm certainly a Michkov fan and I really want to see him come to NA to play for you guys 👌 I was pissed to see Cutter doing what he did btw. Those two together would have been absolutely lethal for years to come and I unfortunately don't see the same level of potential in Drysdale.
by selecting Michkov over Leonard and drafting Oliver Bonk over Gabe Perrault. I believe that`s the reason Cutter Gauthier didn`t want to play here
Yes, the reason was simply he did not want to compete or have to play in the AHL. He believed on this current Flyers team he deserved to be a top 6 forward and wouldn’t be willing to try to “earn” a spot. And Briere wanted to sign both Michkov and Cutter around the same time to save $ and create a good team.
That has nothing to do with it lol
Hadn't heard that one before, interesting theory. I still think it has more to do with the decision to "make" the team and "play" was going to be up to him and his agent. When the Flyers have coaches in place to do just that. It's their decision, or simply put, the tail doesn't wag the dog. Because management has a better idea what's best for the team, getting everyone to be available at the same time, with regards to salaries, cap etc.
I believe the reason they didn’t draft Perrault is bc of Gauthier. They couldn’t risk Cutter getting in Perrault ear. I’m fine with Bonk
Nah, it's because he was told he wasn't ready for the NHL yet and needed time to improve.. 😂
The Anaheim Ducks almost took Michkov over Carlsson.
He had 70 goals / 109 points in 26 games in U16 Russia. He musta played on Putin's line.
Habs will regret
He told them he didn’t want to go there, they made the right choice not drafting him, will they regret who they picked maybe but they shouldn’t regret not picking him because he wouldn’t have gone
I was upset the minute the Habs passed on him. Looked so amazing before the draft and even better afterwards.
every team that picked 2-6 overall that year will regret it if/when he gets here. bedard is the only player you can take before michkov, any other choice is going to look horrible in 5 years or so i feel
@@Boredhockeytime1776did u see hftv tweet about that… If you think he didn’t want to be a Hab, when hftv told him : that he’d love for him to be a Hab, he said:
“All they need to do is pick me”
Regret what? Defence wins championships....your comment is just stupid....
On the one hand you had a guy Gauthier who didn’t want to play for the Flyers. On the other hand you had this Russian who did everything in his power to make sure he got to play for his dream NHL team the Flyers. Philly fans will love him
Every team including Chicago will regret this. Before draft, many believe he is better than Bedard