Pick #88: Stiven Sardarien (RW)

[DHawerchuk10]

 

[PerreaultForever]

After we fired all the scouts did we keep one in Russia nobody talked about? Did KA get extra video from Russia or something? 

Zemgus might want out soon 🙂

 

[Digger]

It's gotta be hard to come from Russia and go to school in NCAA.  It's hard enough for these guys to transition over to the NHL with the language and culture differences.

That being said it should help him be ready to play with us in Rochester when he makes the jump.

Need to send these guys something to start adding weight and muscle to their frames.  Really skinny kids that we're drafting.  Lots of skill. 

[LGR4GM]

7 minutes ago, Digger said:

It's gotta be hard to come from Russia and go to school in NCAA.  It's hard enough for these guys to transition over to the NHL with the language and culture differences.

That being said it should help him be ready to play with us in Rochester when he makes the jump.

Need to send these guys something to start adding weight and muscle to their frames.  Really skinny kids that we're drafting.  Lots of skill. 

That's why he is doing a year in the USHL to get used to NA and then in 2022 he will be in the NCAA

[French Collection]

2 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

That's why he is doing a year in the USHL to get used to NA and then in 2022 he will be in the NCAA

Where is he going in the USHL?

[steveoath]

3 minutes ago, French Collection said:

Where is he going in the USHL?

Youngstown Phantoms was mentioned on twitface

[dudacek]

40 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

I did some digging and he had Covid last year. 

http://unhhockeyblog.blogspot.com/2021/06/unh-commit-stiven-sardaryan-outstanding.html

Great find.

This certainly inspires hope from the “overlooked ‘cause COVID file”

His numbers the year before COVID are sick: 28 goals and 85 points in 24 games?

[steveoath]

Just now, dudacek said:

His numbers the year before COVID are sick: 28 goals and 85 points in 24 games?

That's nuts. Hopefully does well in USHL next year! Then aces the Russian 101 class at uni as he dominates. 

[dudacek]

15 minutes ago, Digger said:

It's gotta be hard to come from Russia and go to school in NCAA.  It's hard enough for these guys to transition over to the NHL with the language and culture differences.

That being said it should help him be ready to play with us in Rochester when he makes the jump.

Need to send these guys something to start adding weight and muscle to their frames.  Really skinny kids that we're drafting.  Lots of skill. 

I’m thinking the Russian kids in particular are going to be heavier than their listed weights already. We may be seeing their 16-year-old weights there.

[LGR4GM]

4 minutes ago, dudacek said:

I’m thinking the Russian kids in particular are going to be heavier than their listed weights already. We may be seeing their 16-year-old weights there.

Very possible without the draft. Getting heights and weights out of Russia is wonky

[Digger]

24 minutes ago, dudacek said:

I’m thinking the Russian kids in particular are going to be heavier than their listed weights already. We may be seeing their 16-year-old weights there.

Good point.  It seems to me that Oskari Laaksonen's stats were off when we drafted him showing him much shorter and lighter than he was at the time of the draft.

[etiennep99]

2 hours ago, Digger said:

It's gotta be hard to come from Russia and go to school in NCAA.  It's hard enough for these guys to transition over to the NHL with the language and culture differences.

That being said it should help him be ready to play with us in Rochester when he makes the jump.

Need to send these guys something to start adding weight and muscle to their frames.  Really skinny kids that we're drafting.  Lots of skill. 

Maybe he had help, but in an e-mail interview, he displayed fantastic English skills save for an occasional slip-up.  Methinks that he could read Shakespeare.

[LGR4GM]

 

[thewookie1]

3 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

 

That hair alone makes him look like a mad scientist.