Red Wings prospect Nikita Tyurin recently spoke with the MHL’s website, and while the junior hockey-playing defenseman just turned 18, these clips from Red Wings Prospects on Twitter illustrate Tyurin’s very mature abilities in terms of knowing how to “walk the blueline” laterally in order to open up opposing defenses and find teammates to tip pucks.
He skates very well with his blades outside of the blueline to stretch the area with which to move the puck, and he’s got a very good shot, too.
Nikita Tyurin(5th round’25) with a goal🚨 and 2 assists 🍎🍎 today. #5 in White. #LGRW pic.twitter.com/UFh3LFQ0Au
— Red Wings Prospects (@LGRWProspects) August 29, 2025
I know everyone’s attention span is screwed up so please watch these two keep ins on his second assist of the game. Impressive stuff. Especially the one out of mid air. pic.twitter.com/3NbYoB8lpj
— Red Wings Prospects (@LGRWProspects) August 29, 2025
It is incredibly early in Tyurin’s career, and he’s very likely to play for MHK Spartak of the MHL (the KHL’s version of junior hockey) this upcoming season, so he’s far from making the jump to North America to say the very least…
But it’s good to see some maturity in his game already, given that his draft year was played as a 17-year-old youngster.
Nikita’s foot-work has shades of ASP. Another one to watch with anticipation.