The Toronto Maple Leafs selected goaltender Artur Akhtyamov with their fourth round pick, 106th overall. Akhtyamov is a 6’2” goaltender playing in the MHL (Russian junior), but has spent some time in the VHL (Russian “AHL”). He had a .931 save percentage in 31 games in the MHL last season.
My first thoughts on the pick were “who?” because we didn’t have a profile on him set up at all. Funnily enough, Akhtyamov is a Dan Milstein client, just like Leafs Rodion Amirov, lya Mikheyev, Alexander Barabanov, Egor Korshkov, and Semyon Der-Arguchintsev. Wow, that’s a lot of players.