From John Vogl’s Interview with Kevyn Adams on the Russian Draftees
Obviously, you guys could not foresee the world events. But for the first time in forever, you drafted a bunch of Russian players. Is there any word on what is going to happen with any of them?
It really hasn’t changed anything in terms of how we move forward. These were all players (whose timelines we knew) could be out a little bit. Yeah, we couldn’t have predicted this, but I still don’t think for us really anything’s changed. There hasn’t been information and we haven’t been told anything, but we still believe these are highly talented players who are going to play for us eventually and be really good NHL players — or at least have a chance to be good NHL players.