With Hitchcock coaching, Nikita Filatov is an ill-fitting Jacket

Bethany's Hockey Rants found this 6/23/2008 on sports.yahoo.com [flag]

I fear for Nikita Filatov. Not just because, in person, he looks young enough to be asking NHL draft picks for autographs rather than being one of them. And not just because the St. Louis Blues and the Toronto Maple Leafs passed on a player that some consider the most offensively explosive in the draft. I fear for him because he doesn't play a lick of defense, and he's going to play for Ken ... [link]

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Published 6/23/2008 by Bethany at Bethany's Hockey Rants
... I honestly can’t get enough of this kid, and that’s not a bad thing, that’s a very very good thing. I have watched the youtube clips over and over and over. Puck Daddy seems to think he’s not a good fit for the Jackets…maybe he hasn’t watched this clip: ...

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