Jason Bukala

Well, and this is another organization that can be somewhat disruptive, let's just say, in the first round.

Been there, seen it, done that.

But what these guys are going to do is they're going to be sort of going off the board, but

almost drafting their next version of Zidane O'Chara from the London Knights.

From the London Knights, Maxim Sokolovsky, 6'7 and a quarter.

He only weighs 240 pounds, which last time I looked makes him at least a linebacker in the NFL.

Perhaps at that height, he could play the end.

I don't know, but this guy is a monster.

He's a monster.

He's an absolute monster.

And it just feels like it's a Boston kind of thing to me.

It feels like this is something that they might do.

Sokolovsky, he really had to earn my trust for full transparency in the back half of the season.

Despite the fact that every time I saw Mark Hunter, he was telling me how good this guy was.

I had to allow that to evolve.

um so skating is really much it's solid he's a solid skater anybody in my opinion anybody who says differently about his skating i don't think they watched enough like his small area don't worry about it he's smooth enough and he gets everywhere where he's got to go but in open ice great like no problem on straight lines and he can close uh moving laterally off the raspberry wall and then his length comes into play too right like going around maxim sokolovsky going to the net he's

is trying to skate a puck through a barbed wire fence.

It's hard to do.

He's all over you.

And then his execution with the puck, it wasn't just boards and glass.