Just over a year ago, Philadelphia Flyers GM Daniel Brière walked up onto a Nashville stage and delivered a sentence that sent fans around the world into a fever: “With the seventh selection in the draft, the Flyers select – from St. Petersburg in the KHL – Matvei Michkov."
It was a dream scenario. Just months earlier, the Russian prodigy had been discussed as the only player who could potentially displace Connor Bedard as the No. 1 pick in the draft. Going into draft day, there was constant conjecture that Michkov would fall -- and more than just fall. Due to a range of factors, a possibility emerged that he could well drop far enough for the Flyers to be in play. The talk was that Michkov ...
