Prospect round-up: Nikita Tyurin scores a goal in his 25-26 season debut

The Detroit Red Wings prospects’ 2025-2026 regular season got underway today as Nikita Tyurin’s MHK Spartak battled SKA-1946 in the Russian MHL, the Russian equivalent of a major junior league.

Tyurin, who gave an English-language interview to the MHL’s website a couple of days ago, scored the 5-1 goal in MHK Sprtak’s 7-3 win over SKA-1946. My Russian isn’t very good, but the stat sheet indicates that Tyurin scored and blocked 2 shots.

Per the indispensable Red Wings Prospects on Twitter:

It’s far too early to guess whether Tyurin will work his way up the ranks to Spartak’s VHL team (the Russian equivalent of the AHL) or KHL team, but at the major junior level, he posted 4 goals and 16 assists for 20 points in 50 games last season…And he didn’t turn 18 years old until July 2nd.

Tyurin isn’t overly big at 6′ and 174 pounds, but the 140th overall pick in the 2025 NHL Draft has some time to develop into a bigger and stronger player.

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