Habs prospect Alexander Romanov excited to start 2020-21 season

When it comes to highly touted prospects, defenceman Alexander Romanov immediately pops into the mind of many fans of the Montreal Canadiens. While we are still roughly a month away from the projected start to the 2020-21 season, players of teams across the NHL are starting to arrive in their home cities to begin a quarantine period. You can add Romanov to that list of players as he arrived in Montreal last weekend to begin his 14-day quarantine.

In an interview with the Russian website, Metaratings.ru, Romanov discussed how excited he is to begin his rookie season with the Montreal Canadiens.

“I have already got excited 150 times,. “I am waiting and waiting for the start of my debut season in the NHL. I've been out of the game for eight months. It's very hard. There is no practice at all. But I believe that in this situation it is necessary to get out and make every effort so that (my nerves are) not noticeable. The main thing is that this does not affect the game. I trained a lot. I hope it's okay.” he said.

In preparation of the upcoming season, Romanov mentioned he has been training in Russia for the past two-to-three months, without any breaks, and he is also working on his English.

“I have been training for 2-3 months without a break (but) I miss the games.”

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“Honestly, the previous time when I was in Canada (during the summer playoff bubble in Toronto) improved the language … now, of course, I forgot,” said Romanov. “That arrival helped me quite a lot in upgrading my language knowledge. In general, I understood the level of my English, so now I did not particularly study it. I'll pull up in Canada!“

Romanov, 20, was drafted in the second round, 38th overall by the Montreal Canadiens in the 2018 NHL entry draft. He's spent the last two seasons in the KHL with CSKA Moscow.

In 86 regular season games, he tallied 11 points (1 G, 10 A), 26 penalty minutes, and was a +37. In 8 career playoff games, he had 0 points, 2 penalty minutes, and was a +2. Romanov won the Gagarin Cup with CSKA Moscow as KHL champions during the 2018-19 season.

Internationally, Romanov has represented Russia on several occasions, most recently at the 2020 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championships where he was an alternate captain. In 7 games, he had 6 points (1 G, 5 A), 2 penalty minutes, and was a +6 as Russia took home silver after losing to Canada in the gold medal game. For his efforts, he was named to the World Junior all-star team.

He also played for Russia at the 2019 World Juniors, where he had 8 points (1 G, 7 A), 0 penalty minutes, and was a +12 in 7 games, as Russia went on to win the bronze medal. Romanov was named the best defenceman at the tournament, and was named to the tournament all-star team. He led the tournament in assists, points by a defenceman, and plus/minus.

Source: Montreal Gazette

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