Ivan Demidov Talks About NHL Dream, Multiple Meetings With Montreal Canadiens Ahead Of NHL Draft

Ivan Demidov Talks About NHL Dream, Multiple Meetings With Montreal Canadiens Ahead Of NHL Draft

yes Ian how much do you care where you end up being drafted about care what’s it’s like what’s it the rank is it important to go I think more important uh if you in a right right team you know yeah uh like uh when you JM uh like uh uh I know like a prob like you and uh give you the time uh on eyes you know I think it’s uh more more important than uh like a like a run how would you describe your game I think I’m uh I’m a player you know and uh if this needed I I can score but uh I think I’m uh more playmaker than uh than SC do you pattern game after or did you growing up pattern your game after anyone specifically try to play like someone else or are you allive and de uh I think yeah I’m uh I David you know uh in in the hocke I haven’t like eatles uh I likeed the maybe a couple guys uh who play in NHL but uh I know I like my style you know and uh I think uh I don’t want to be like uh other guys I want to be be myself uh be Ian Ivan hockey is number one in Canada Montreal is a big pressure Market they pick fifth should you be available at five do you believe you would be able to handle the pressure to play in a market like Montreal if so why uh I think uh if uh if I I I gooll to monreal it’s not a problem about fans because uh I didn’t listen listen it and uh I think uh that’s good uh and uh I don’t know many you said before it’s about going to the right team pardon me okay it’s not about where but we’re going to the right team when you look is there a right team for you that you look at them and you believe you can be great in that system uh about uh NHL teams yeah uh I don’t know maybe after the draft I can say but now no sorry how many times have you talked with the Canadians with can or Gordon and you met them quite often yeah uh weal with uh with mreal uh in the All Season you know uh about about his uh Scout and yeah what was it like seeing all those teams come down to Florida to meet with you how many teams did you meet with and uh what you know what what did they want to know about you I think um NHL teams uh didn’t see before for me and uh they want to I think only meeting meeting with me meet yeah and uh uh I think uh you know like uh other uh no couple teams uh like uh like Chicago like and I’m like Montreal like colus talk with me about uh about uh my my skills about about me like like a person and uh uh other team same like uh they want to be they want to know about about my game about uh about my my uh people qualities you talk about Chicago would that be special to play with a guy like Conor badar yeah just special uh but I don’t know let’s see in the future you have a special feeling do you have a team where you think okay it will be that team do you have a special feeling uh could you guess where you can go do you think you’re going to go second you think no it’s it’s it’s not my it’s not it’s not my work yeah I know it’s it’s it’s your it’s work okay you said before you met with Montreal when was the last time you met with them and when you finished talking to them how did you feel about the meeting uh really really cool but uh I know tomorrow we meeting with uh with again uh and I think after after that I I can’t say about but uh now I have a I have a good uh you know like uh like Memories I don’t know how it’s called yeah uh like good memories about about our uh talk but after your meeting tomorrow let me know how it goes okay okay you you still have one more year to play in the KHL but how much of a dream will it be for you to be playing in the national Loy League one day uh about how many years oh you still have one more year yeah one more year but for you is it a dream to be playing in the NHL dream yeah I think uh for for all all all uh players who who started to work uh from from from childhood want to want to be NHL player and uh I think for me same I want to play in NHL and you you’ve gone through an injury when are you going to be able to be skating again and I think maybe uh one one more later one more week later you know and you plan to get back on the ice right away then oh yeah when have you started to learn English uh I think uh maybe one one and a half year ago wow can you speak French uh no from one okay that’s good uh no uh no I said you speak good and you said that’s good okay what do you think you need to work on to be 100% when you enter the NHL in one year what do you think you need to improve uh I think uh it’s uh you know like uh like more more strange you know and uh I think I want to I want to be more more exposive on the eyes okay yeah other other skills I have you want to add some weight because I think to do some no no I have a good weight you know only muscle just like do you think next next season with with Scot will you play in the KHL uh really now I don’t I I don’t know about it uh I think only after after the draft we we talk with the with our management I know you said that you want to be Ian deid of but is there one in inell player that your style might be fitting with him can you pinpoint one player uh maybe I think like like a coma like uh H and dris I think a good player yeah

Top Russian prospect Ivan Demidov met with the media ahead of the NHL Draft. Among the topics covered by the potential top-five pick was his dream of playing in the NHL, if he think he’ll play in the KHL next season and his many meetings with the Montreal Canadiens.

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