With the later rounds coming fast and furious, Sunny was right back on the clock and selected a big Russian Defenseman at pick 44. He stands 6\u20195\u201d and 187 lbs, starting the season in the KHL for Salavat Yulaev Ufa, however after 7 games he spent most of the season with Toros Neftekamsk, Salavat Yulaev\u2019s MHL team (their AHL):<\/p>\n
Shcherbakov profiles very similarly to another big Russian defenseman in the Devils system, as his skillset is largely predicated on 4-way mobility. He is also lauded for his composure and the maturity in his game, and Byron Bader\u2019s prospect model <\/a>has him with a decent chance to become an NHLer:<\/p>\n Here is a quote from Elite Prospects Dylan Griffing on Shcherbakov:<\/p>\n With the pace of play always ticking upwards in modern hockey, a shutdown defenceman who eats up rushes with an elite range of motion could be a real difference maker. For us, that is one of the things that makes Shcherbakov a special prospect. EP Film Room<\/a><\/p>\n Here is his highlight reel from HSD<\/a>:<\/p>\n One thing that is becoming clear is Sunny is targeting skating mobility and hockey IQ, and with Command <\/a>and Vanhanen <\/a>has already added some intriguing guys to the mix. He\u2019s probably not going to light it up with points, but I can see a solid 2nd pair 2-way defenseman which is something we desperately need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the later rounds coming fast and furious, Sunny was right back on the clock and selected a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5109],"tags":[40514,201,5,576,151,5185,5184,4],"class_list":["post-608651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-jersey-devils","tag-2026-nhl-draft-prospects","tag-devils","tag-hockey","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-jersey-devils","tag-newjersey","tag-newjerseydevils","tag-nhl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116823121188496314","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}