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Ivan Demidov on the top-6 of the SKA for his last game of the regular season
Mathis Therrien
Ivan Demidov on the top-6 of the SKA for his last game of the regular season
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The saga continues in the Ivan Demidov case with SKA Saint-Petersburg.

Seriously, you’d think it’s a toxic love affair, given how much on-again, off-again there is.

One day, SKA is in love with Demidov and plays him 20 minutes on the top-6, but the next day, SKA hates Demidov and leaves him on the sidelines, despite him being the team’s top scorer.

In short, it’s a completely ridiculous situation that has been going on since the start of the season.

Unfortunately, this situation doesn’t seem to be ending anytime soon, as today Demidov will play on the top-6 for SKA in their last game of the regular season.

However, Demidov was left out of the recent SKA game (a game lost by SKA) because he needed to “get back in shape,” according to his coach Roman Rotenberg.

Demidov will play on the left wing of the second line with Evgeny Kuznetsov.

So, the habs prospect went from not being in shape and being left out to playing on the top-6 with the star player of SKA, who officially returns from injury today after a month’s absence.

It seems that Rotenberg liked the chemistry between Demidov and Kuznetsov before the injury, and therefore, for his return to the game, the head coach wanted to reform the duo.

In any case, it’s a pretty special change of heart in just two days, which once again shows how Ivan Demidov is being managed by Rotenberg, which is really ridiculous.

Playing yo-yo with a 19-year-old is really ridiculous.

In short, Demidov will play today against Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod’s defenseman Bogdan Konyushkov (another habs prospect) in what will be SKA’s last game of the regular season.

After this game, we may find out who SKA’s opponent will be in the first round of the playoffs, which will give us a better idea of Demidov’s near future, because if SKA is quickly eliminated, Demidov may end up playing in the MHL, the American League of the KHL.


Overtime

– Indeed.

– Wow. A former fourth-line player in the NHL has just broken the record for most goals in a season in the KHL. Note that in his career, Leivo has scored 42 goals in 265 games in the NHL, and now he has scored 49 goals in 61 games in the KHL.

– What do you think?

– Well done!

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