Quietly, the New Jersey Devils find themselves in danger of risking the development of their No. 1 defense prospect, Anton Silayev.
Silayev, 19, is playing under a new head coach for the first time as a member of Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod, going from two seasons of Igor Larionov to a first-time KHL head coach in Alexei Isakov. The results haven't been so great thus far.
Though he was never going to be a high-flying points producer, Silayev has just one assist in 22 KHL games this season, but his ice time is beginning to sink rapidly now as well.