Good talent but I do like the Dustin Brown comparison. His upside is probably around 80 but I don't see him reaching that in St.Louis with their scoring by committee approach. Not enough pick to go around.

Safely say 60-65

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I'd say his upside is 85 points, he plays a lot like Claude Giroux and should be a safe bet for 50 points in his first year with the Blues.

He's a very dynamic player.

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My prediction. Semin 2.0. Hopefully with more drive and determination.

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F-Datsyuk,C.Giroux,Kopitar,Read,Duchene,Z. Kassian,Stamkos,Voracek,Hall,Seguin,Eberle,Couture ,Turris,Ladd,vanReimsdyk,Greening,Vrbata,Burrows,K unitz,Hagelin,Doan

D-Carlson,Edler,Hedman,Karlsson,
Pietrangelo,Shattenkirk,A.Larsson,J.Schultz,Faulk, Souray

G-Bernier,Quick,Markstrom,
Neuvirth,Rask,Bachman,Lindback

F-G,A=1pt (14 count)
D-G,A=1pt,+- (8 count)
G-Win=3pts,T=1,SO=2,G,A=1 (3 count)

12 Team Dynasty

Kovalenko clone. book it. I wanted below 65 option.

Obviously hard to say but I think he will settle in around 65-75 pts, with maybe a career year of 80-85. I wouldn't expect too much in year one, maybe 35-40 max.

(The 'Pull a Filatov' option makes me wonder what similar threads on Filatov's point predictions looked like 3-4 years ago - I bet most were saying 80+)

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16 Tm Dynasty,DailyH2H
3C,6W,4D,1G;G,A,PIM,+/-,STP,SOG,Hits,FOW,W,SO,GA,S
C-Kopitar,Carter,Zajac,Shore
W-Perry,Parise,Neal,Oshie,JvR,Clarkson,M.Foligno,Sil vferberg,Chiasson
D-Yandle,J.Johnson,Carlson,Nikitin,Dillon,Barrie
G-Ward,Bernier
Fm-Holland,Pulkkinen,Rattie,Teravainen,Jensen,Rundbla d,Morrow,Barberio,Krug

10 Tm-8F,4D,2G Weekly
F-Stamkos,MSL,E.Staal,Toews,Seguin,Duchene,E.Kane,St epan,J.Staal,Brown,Silfverberg,Johansen
D-Keith,Seabrook,Voynov,Bogo,Wideman,Fowler
G-Price,Rask,Dubnyk
Fm-Tarasenko,Scheifele,Atkinson,Faksa,Smith,Orlov,Rie lly,Trouba,Markstrom

Filatov is the last Russian I will ever draft. Too much s*#t, and baggage.

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F-Datsyuk,C.Giroux,Kopitar,Read,Duchene,Z. Kassian,Stamkos,Voracek,Hall,Seguin,Eberle,Couture ,Turris,Ladd,vanReimsdyk,Greening,Vrbata,Burrows,K unitz,Hagelin,Doan

D-Carlson,Edler,Hedman,Karlsson,
Pietrangelo,Shattenkirk,A.Larsson,J.Schultz,Faulk, Souray

G-Bernier,Quick,Markstrom,
Neuvirth,Rask,Bachman,Lindback

F-G,A=1pt (14 count)
D-G,A=1pt,+- (8 count)
G-Win=3pts,T=1,SO=2,G,A=1 (3 count)

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bad comparison...

filatov had skill, but he was unmotivated and is a big pu$$y...

he wasn't going to make the nhl regardless of what country he was born in.

tarasenko's skill set is exactly opposite of filatov, he is coachable and a lot of people are undervaluing him. big time.

a lot of people may be overvaluing him too...

St. Louis will change from scoring by committee to scoring by Tarasenko in a few years.

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13 team keeper Sim league
40 player 100 year cap,
C: Toews, Roy, Spezza, Josefson, Zibanejad, Grabovski, Granlund
LW: Kovalchuk, Elias, Booth, Baertchi
RW: Erat, Filppula, Frolik, Tarasenko,
D: Visnovsky, Goligoski, B. Smith, Gill, M. Green, Ohlund, Elliott, Gudbranson, Klefbom
G: Hiller, Toivonen, Montoya, Thomas

Nobody is undervaluing him in my league. The caveat with Russians is if they don't get their way, they have a natural out in the KHL. Until I join a KHL fantasy league, Russian players won't be on my draft list (until one sticks a puts up points, then like a retard I will make the same stupid mistake and draft them like their going out of style ).