It finally happened! Nail Yakupov has got off the proverbial schneid — proverbial because he wasn’t on one in the first place — and netted his first ever KHL goal. The style points are definitely lacking, but they all count the same.
Sergei Bobrovsky allowed the goal so insert your totally obvious and wholly unoriginal “Columbus Blue Jackets players aren’t even good in the KHL” line here.
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The Edmonton Oilers are a franchise keen on keeping traditions in tact no matter how recent. You’ll note that each of the last first overall picks the franchise has had — Taylor Hall and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, for those of you with short memories — have missed significant portions of time due to injury in their brief careers.
Enter Nail Yakupov.
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Jo Innes, Ryan Lambert, Daniel Wagner, Cam Charron, Ellen Etchingham, Jake Goldsbie, Darren Kritzer
