Will Scouch

But I think that the fundamentals in his game, the confidence, the skill, the skating edges, they're all just so good with him that...

I go, you know what, I think that if I had this guy in my system, you would get a very interesting player out of him.

You'd have to have a system, I think, around him that makes it make sense, but I think he could be a really, really good pickup.

Oh, man.

I mean, if I'm thinking like an NHL team, I would love it.

It would be so much fun to see a guy like Gleb Pugachev jump up.

I mean, I know teams out there are spooked about drafting out of Russia, and I get that.

I certainly have been burned over the years by going that route.

But Pugachev is a bit different.

He is cut from a different cloth.

Like this guy...

You watch this guy for one game, no matter what the level he's at in Russia, and you go, okay, I get what this guy's all about.

He is a monster.

He will run you over.

He'll run through you.

I just can't help but wonder if an NHL team out there is like, there's a lot to this guy.

He's a good skater for his size.

He's physical as it gets.

He's very intense.

very hard to handle if you're an opponent and we can work with this and we can, we can deal with this.