This is an exciting time for fans of the Ottawa Senators. An in-depth, one-by-one look at the team’s farm system, featuring blue-chip talent, under-the radar prospects, and budding superstars? Sign me up! Which begs the question: is Artem Zub any of those things?
Regardless of your answer, the 6’2, 198-pound, undrafted blueliner from Khabarovsk, Russia has found his way onto this year’s list, partly for the reason that he could be the best right-handed defensemen in the organization right now. No, I’m not kidding.
Zub has spent his entire professional career in Russia, playing the last three seasons with the KHL’s SKA St.