Name: Marat Khusnutdinov
Team: SKA-1946 St. Petersburg (MHL)
Position: Center
Stats: 44 games played, 13 goals, 25 assists, 38 points, 16 PIMs, +27 plus/minus rating
NHL Central Scouting ranking: 12th (European skaters)
The goal of the NHL draft is not to find and acquire the most purely fun players available, but if it were, Russian center Marat Khusnutdinov would be a hot commodity.
Simply put, Khusnutdinov is a hell of a lot of fun to watch play hockey. He can absolutely fly with his skating, he has one of the best pairs of hands in the entire draft, and he has a motor that just doesn’t quit.