Director of NHL Central Scouting Caught in Massive Lie Regarding Russian Prospects

Dan Marr, the NHL's Director of Central Scouting, has been quite active all weekend, giving his thoughts on various prospects, and interacting with many members of the media. A noticeable omission from this weekend's activities were the top prospects of Russian nationality. According to Marr, the NHL extended invites to the top nine ranked Russian prospects, but none ended up coming over.

Fans were quick to do some digging and found an interview with Matvei Michkov from last month, in which he said he had no knowledge of the upcoming NHL Draft Combine.

Marr claims that the NHL extended invitations to Russian prospects, but Michkov, the top-ranked Russian prospect, claimed to have no knowledge of the combine.

Something seems off here.

One possibility that's been floated is that the NHL did extend invitations to Russian prospects, but did so incredibly late relative to players of other nationalities so that the Russians wouldn't have enough time to get a visa and come over.

By doing this, the NHL technically would've extended invitations to those prospects but would've made it all but impossible for the players to get their visas in time for the combine.

Whatever the truth is, something's not adding up between Marr's and Michkov's comments.

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