The Best Of Kirill Semyonov, Toronto Maple Leafs, Hockey Highlights, HD
The 61, 176lb center is coming off of a KHL championship while playing a defensive role for Avangard Omsk. He put up 10 goals and 26 points in 60 regularseason games this season to go along with nine points in 23 playoff games. Semyonov is a client of agent Dan Milstein, who also represents a number of prominent Russian NHL players. There is a long list of current and former Leafs that Milstein represents, including Nikita Zaitsev, Alexander Barabanov, Rodion Amirov, Artur Akhtyamov, Semyon DerArguchintsev, and Ilya Mikheyev. If nothing else, this signing signals once again that the Leafs organization clearly maintains a strong relationship with Milstein and is generally wellrespected by European UDFAs. They have been able to maintain this relationship by acquiring a number of these types of players, treating them well, providing them with opportunities, and shipping them off to a different organization if they cannot make it work in Toronto Alex Barabanov, Mikko Lehtonen). With this relationship
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