New Flyers forward German Rubtsov, selected by the team with the No. 22 overall selection in the 2016 NHL Draft, spoke with the media through a translator after his selection. Video can be seen below.
A few notes:
- It's not the best interview. He doesn't speak a word of English yet.
- He's playing in Russia right now but he says that his agent is working to get him out of that contract and over to North America as soon as possible.
- He didn't talk too much about the doping scandal that forced his entire under-18 Russian squad out of the World Championships earlier this year, but did say that the team didn't really know what was happening and that they weren't knowingly doping.
- He says he's friends with Ivan Provorov, which obviously will help.
- He says the Flyers were the team that contacted him the most over the course of the last year and that scouts were often at his games.