Lokomotiv is giving one of their youngest players a chance to shine, and he's running with it.
First the goal, the game winner in overtime as Lokomotiv took Avangard 3-2:
Yegor Korshkov is the Russian Mitch Marner. Not because he's as good as Marner, but because he outplayed the junior league by as much as Marner did the OHL.
I had some concern that with a lot of additions at the top of the Lokomotiv lineup, Korshkov might get shoved off the bottom of the depth chart, but he's getting ice time. The coach seems to be running a very even spread between the top line and the bottom group of forwards, and Korshkov is usually at a third to fourth line number of shifts.