is it weird that neither of Hollanov played the year after they were drafted? I'm Old, I know Malkin didnt and Toews didn't, but I kind of got the impression that was because their respective teams wanted to continue the tank so they could draft high and complete their duos the next year. I just took a real quick look at the first and second overall draft picks around then, Taylor Hall/Tyler Seguin, Nugent-Hopkins/Landeskog, and all those guys played for their NHL teams the season after they were drafted. Is that abnormal, or is that normal and there's a plot-related reason Hollanov didn't play their first year? I've only watched the show and it seemed off to me that two highly anticipated prospects wouldn't be playing in the season immediately following their draft
Yeah! So I find it really weird as well. It seems like what happened is that Shane got sent back down to his CHL team after the draft and played another season with them before coming to the NHL for his rookie season? Or at least I extrapolated that that’s what happened because it truly is never really explained why Shane doesn’t play for the NHL during the 2009/10 season. Ilya I assume immigration stuff is a possible explanation, although that is kind of handwavy in my opinion as well. For all intents and purposes Shane and Ilya should have been on NHL ice by the fall of 2009. Sidney Crosby was drafted in July 2005 and debuted in October. He was a huge and much-discussed prospect that year, much like Shane and Ilya. The Raiders/Bears and the Metroyageurs really should have been champing at the bit to play them as soon as possible. They had record breaking rookie seasons! They could have broken even more records if they debuted in 2009. I’m talking, like, youngest player to play on an All Star Team for Ilya (Upsetting Scott Hunter, of course—lol) or youngest player to receive an A for Shane (Following in Sid the Kid’s footsteps)
Tanking IS a possibility (My wife and I talk about tanking all the time lmao, as fans of basketball and hockey respectively) but like. Idk. It just seems so useless to draft Shane Hollander and then send him back to Kingston. Negligent, even.
But yeah! It’s weird to me!!