Major Turnaround Surrounding Matvei Michkov's Plans for Next Season
In a tweet posted by an NHL Insider Journalist, it may appear that we might see Michkov in North America sooner than we thought....
Though he won't be at prospect camp next week, Matvei's translator fully belives he will be a member of the Philadelphia Flyers at the beginning of the 2024 season.
Locked up in Russia
Now last season in Russia, he had signed with SKA St. Petersburg of the Kontinental Hockey League through 2025-26, so it is all up in the air how Michkov's agent plans to get him out of that contract and into Philly.
In a press conference shortly after he was selected, Michkov said the following about his recently deceased father and his NHL plans:
"It's important for me to finish the goal that my dad had for me," Michkov said via a translator, "and that's to win the Stanley Cup."
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