Russian defender is a sensation in the Vegas camp: scored twice against Los Angeles and earned praise

Miromanov breaks into the basis of the “knights.”

Daniil Miromanov’s career was not outstanding until last season. Until the age of 18, he was an undistinguished striker who was not attracted to the junior national teams – and he played in the Canadian juniors. True, the change in Miromanov’s position was influenced by the current head coach of the youth team Igor Larionov.

“He saw in me the skills of an attacking defender, but in the summer I went to Bathurst and I was as an attacker. They needed guys in attack with a good shot and pass. Therefore, I played offensively for a while. But Igor Nikolaevich insisted that I switch to the position of a defender, as it happened in the future “- said Miromanov in an April interview ” SE “.

After graduation from the CHL, there was nothing interesting in the career of the converted striker: the first visit to Sochi, which was then signed by many players from juniors, VHL, Czech League, ECHL, then again the Higher League – but for SKA- Neva “. A successful season in St. Petersburg allowed us to leave for Sochi again, which in one summer took half a dozen guys from the overcrowded army system (more precisely, they were sent).

As a result, Miromanov became one from the sensations of last season: last year’s Sochi attack was generated by one troika and Daniil, who scored 29 points – the eighth result in the league among defenders and second among Russian defenders (after Andrey Sergeev). On the other side of the scales were “-20” and Daniel’s constant failures in defense, but this did not prevent the newcomer from signing a contract with “Vegas”. Although there were already a lot of defenders there.

Today, in the preseason game with Los Angeles, Miromanov came out in the second pair along with Nicholas Hug and scored two goals. One of them came out fantastic:

he’s the Miro-MAN- ov 🚨🚨 pic.twitter.com/Y8e4IIXyk7

– Vegas Golden Knights (@GoldenKnights) October 2, 2021

The media immediately picked up the words of The Athletic columnist Jesse Granger, who called Miromanov a “superstar”. But later the journalist added: “I know that right now he is not considered an NHL-level defender. But I don’t know yet if he has the potential to reach this level. He’s a spectacular player, but he needs to improve his defensive play. ”

Vegas head coach Peter DeBoer said that playing like this will reward him with another chance to try his hand at training camp – and this is the goal of all young defenders. Miromanov himself called his partners elite players and noted that everything is simple: you open up – you get the puck.

It is unlikely that Miromanov will immediately break into the main team, even considering her problems with the ceiling. Four players with large contracts are guaranteed to get a place in the base, as well as the aforementioned Hag, who has been playing for a long time in the base. But to fight for the role of the sixth-seventh defender Miromanov is quite real – his competitors do not have such experience in playing adult hockey.

NHL. Preseason matches

Vegas – Los Angeles – 4: 0 (1 : 0, 1: 0, 2: 0)

1: 0 – 10 ‘ Miromanov (Marchessot, Karlsson)

2: 0 – 30 ‘Martinez (Pietrangelo, Marchesso), GB

3: 0 – 41 ‘Karlsson (Pietrangelo, Smith)

4: 0 – 47′ Miromanov (Smith)

Goalkeepers : Brossua 38/38 – Petersen 24 / 28

The first Russian double in the NHL preseason: Yegor Afanasyev is the main star of the match against Tampa. Do you know who this is?

Crazy save of the Avtomobilist goalkeeper: he pulled out the puck with his stick on the opposite side after a ricochet

Photo: East News / AP Photo / David Becker;