In 2025-26, Ivan Demidov will play his first full year in the NHL. A month ago, we would have thought that it was at this time that he would have given his first skating strokes in the Bettman circuit … But in the end, he was able to come and play a few games with the CH at the end of the season.
And we saw it: the kid has talent to resell.
Demidov amassed two points (two assistance mentions) in five games in the series against the Capitals. His two points came in the fourth game … and they came with the advantage of a man.
And precisely, all this is interesting, because even if Demidov has experienced good times in the series, we notice that most of these moments came in digital advantage.
Figures reported by JFresh on X Demonstrate something interesting on Demidov: during the series, no CH striker created less likely than him at 5 against 5.
In fact, at 5 against 5, Demidov created a large total of… 0 chances. And that includes both the chances of scoring and the chances of obtaining an assistance mention.
Obviously, at first glance, it all seems a bit worrying. Considering the talent of kidCH needed to see it create a little more 5 against 5 … But despite everything, it is Really not the end of the world.
-After all, Demidov played this series as a 19-year-old who was in his early days in the Bettman circuit. The most important for him, in this series, was to taste the reality of the NHL series to be ready to excel in the future, he who was not even assumed Being the alignment of the Canadian for these matches.
Is it disappointing? Yes. But is it worrying? Not necessarily, no.
If the tricolor has been able to give a hard time to the capitals even without contribution from Demidov to 5 against 5, it suggests that once the kid Will be better acclimatized to the style of play of NHL series (and above all, once it will have better trio companions), the club can easily seek a second speed that it did not (yet) had (yet) this year.
It’s a shame that the Habs were eliminated in five games … But it is a first step forward that has been taken in the past two weeks. And that is the most important.
Burst
– Official: a new contract for Frederik Andersen in Caroline.
– Jack Eichel gives a hard time to Connor McDavid.
– The pole for Max Verstappen.
