Quoting: habitantlecolon
TANK YOU this is a proper answer. NOW usually we would go with such chart right? But is there any time in the last 30 years that a top 2 talent have slipped for nationality reason ? ( I mean is Michkov per talent and skill in the same mold as the chart)??
First, I don't think that I completely agree that Michkov is for sure the 2nd best player in this draft. There might be a slight gap between he and Fantilli, but I don't feel like it's substantial.
To answer your question though, off the top of my head, I'm thinking Kaprizov (Maybe not the 2nd best player from that draft, but easily top 5), but looking back to the Soviet Union days (Which is eerily similar to what's going on now in Russia), Alex Mogilny and Pavel Bure both come to mind. I'm sure that there's plenty of examples of 1st round talents slipping because of it as well, but without spending too much time on it, that's what I've got. The better question here is "How many times have we seen 2OA traded?", which is probably more rare than talent sliding in the draft.
Honestly, it's not going to shock me to see him fall even further than 5OA. My personal mock has:
-Bedard
-Fantilli
-Carlsson
-Smith
-Reinbacher
-Michkov (Arizona).
The GM who takes Michkov *has* to feel confident that he'll still be around in 3-4 years when he *might* get Michkov to NA. If Anaheim has slid to 3OA, I think Verbeek would have been in a position to take him, but Fantilli is there, and the Ducks need to start moving in the right direction, which is why Fantilli is the pick.