Since the start of the season, we have been closely following what is happening with Ivan Demidov in Russia. The CH prospect, who is the most promising in the organization at the moment, is being watched closely because people can’t wait to see him in Montreal.
And if we trust his activity on social networks, he also seems to be looking forward to being in town.
That said, when we look at what has been happening with SKA for a while, we notice one thing: things have been (really) bad for the club since then.
Yesterday, for example, SKA was defeated in overtime…
And in doing so, he has now lost six of his last seven meetings.
Obviously, for a club that pulled out all the stops this summer by looking for big names, it’s a difficult sequence. The expectations were clear at SKA: we wanted to be a dominant team and find ourselves at the top of the league standings.
And that means that we start to feel tension around the team. Yesterday, after the defeat, coach Roman Rotenberg criticized his players for their lack of discipline… and he also gave rather cold and acerbic responses to journalists in connection with the lack of offense recently.
No, it’s not ideal.
Demidov seems to be affected by this whole situation, he who has still not scored a single point since the start of the month (six matches). We’re starting to see him play less than 10 minutes per game again, and much like the rest of his team, he seems to be in a slump at the moment.
It’s not ideal, obviously… but let’s hope for Demidov that it will return to SKA soon. Because at the moment, the atmosphere seems quite heavy within the team, and we will have to hope that it will start to calm down quickly.
In burst
– Congratulations to the Rouge et Or who will participate in the 14th Vanier Cup in its history.
– Interestingly, Jeff Gorton’s son Jack will play his first game with Boston University and will take the place of Lane Hutson’s brother Quinn, who is injured.
– Will Pastrnak have another 60-goal season?
– The Russian seems to have understood that he no longer has the right to make mistakes.
