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Something In The Way – C.I.’s ’15-’16 Season Preview: Viktor Tikhonov

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And now for the final member of the Wild n’ Crazy Guys that have taken residence in the bowels of the United Center – Viktor Tikhonov.

Little background here: Tikhonov is the grandson of Viktor Tikhonov, a chief architect of the famous Red Army teams as well as one of the most successful coaches in the Soviet Union’s history. Tikhonov, the younger, was a first round pick of the Coyotes in 2008 and was drafted in his final year of eligibility (meaning he had been passed his first two years, similar to Andrew Shaw).

Tikhonov made the Coyotes out of training camp, played for the insane Wayne Gretzky for 66 games before being reassigned to their AHL affiliate for the remainder of the year and then played 18 games there the following year before heading back to the KHL to get the hell out of his contract. And that’s where he’s been since.

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Something In The Way – C.I.’s ’15-’16 Season Preview: Artem Anisimov

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The acquisition of Arty The One Man Party has provided the Hawks more depth down the middle to start a season than they’ve had since they went Toews-Sharp-Bolland-Madden at the beginning of 2010 (I actually had to remind myself that Bolland was a Hawk, which is weird. And remember Sharp as a center? We never, ever talked about that!) And he wasn’t just some name the Hawks came up with in desperation when they realized they couldn’t sign Brandon Saad. They had been after him before he was traded from New York to Columbus. This is a player the Hawks have eyed for a while. Hopefully, he’ll show us all why this season.

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Something In The Way – C.I.’s ’15-’16 Season Preview: Marko Dano

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I think we’ll keep circling through the new forwards as Matt started that trend yesterday. It’s more interesting that way, as basically you know what you’re getting from the holdovers. So now we’ll get to the main prize in the Brandon Saad deal, or what the Hawks will hope becomes the main prize, Marko Dano.

Last Season: 35 games, 8 goals, 13 points, 21 points, +12, 14 PIM, 54.0% Corsi Percentage (+7.4% Relative), 48.9% Corsi Competition

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Something In The Way – ’15-’16 Preview – Artemi Panarin

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Moving onto the forwards, Artemi Panarin is the biggest wild card of the recent influx of Russians to the Hawks, who have not had a Russian forward in nearly 8 years after Sergei Samsonov (remember him?) was dealt to Carolina. Panarin will undoubtedly be labeled an highly skilled, an enigma, a malcontent, lazy, or all of the above because that’s just the way it works with Russians in the NHL. But with Patrick Sharp and Brandon Saad now gone, there’s a real opportunity for Panarin to make some noise on the left side.

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2015-2016 Committed Indian Digital Subscriptions Now Open!

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