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Kovalchuk
Feb 7, 2019 20:32:51 GMT -5
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Post by Willie Dog on Feb 7, 2019 20:32:51 GMT -5
Would Kovalchuk help the Habs... he can score... he can do a lot but unsure about his speed. Cap hit of 6 mill for 2 more years
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Post by blny on Feb 7, 2019 22:24:12 GMT -5
Would Kovalchuk help the Habs... he can score... he can do a lot but unsure about his speed. Cap hit of 6 mill for 2 more years Both he and the Kings are likely prepared to move on, as he signed there thinking they had a shot at the playoffs at least. If anyone does trade for him, I think the Kings are going to have to retain. He knows where to be, and that can overcome foot speed issues. I just don't know. For example, Andrew Shaw has the same number of goals and 2 less points in 8 fewer games. |
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Post by folatre on Feb 7, 2019 23:01:55 GMT -5
His career speaks volumes about the incredible talent. However, he is almost 36 years old and he does not look like the same player. I guess you listen if the Kings are talking about retaining and essentially trying to dump him for assets of no genuine value. But I have a hard time seeing the fit for the uptempo suffocating style the Habs play 5 on 5 and I also have a hard time seeing how it works in 2020-21 from a cap perspective when dollars might start looking a lot tighter than they have the past couple of seasons.
I really do not see many landing spots for Kovalchuk. I know that Boston was pursuing him pretty hard before he chose LA. Maybe the Bruins circle back around if they cannot land a guy like Stone or Panarin. I would think that Rob Blake would have to eat 50 percent or close to it for the Bruins to bite and I doubt Don Sweeney would part with much more than a third round pick or a prospect like Senyshyn.
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Post by BadCompany on Feb 8, 2019 8:27:31 GMT -5
Hard pass for me. Maybe if he only had one more year left, but he still has two. And even if he retires, you're still on the hook for that cap hit. Perhaps if the Kings were to retain half his salary (and it would still be over $3 million), AND threw in some high picks (at least a third, preferably a second), then I might consider it. But even then... as blny points out, he hasn't been any more productive than Andrew Shaw, and he doesn't do the other things Shaw does. You can argue that he's playing on a bad team... but you could also argue that they are a bad team because they have too many guys like him on it...
I see him and Julien REALLY not getting along.
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Kovalchuk
Feb 8, 2019 12:51:11 GMT -5
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Post by Willie Dog on Feb 8, 2019 12:51:11 GMT -5
I see him and Julien REALLY not getting along. Lol... |
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Post by Disgruntled70sHab on Feb 8, 2019 14:58:08 GMT -5
Ilya (man-from-U.N.C.L.E) Kovalchuk was almost a Hab ... Andre Savard threw in the kitchen sink to land this guy, but he wouldn't part with G, Mathieu Garon ... Savard was offering prospect Jose Theodore instead and Don Waddell moved on ... here's a cut and paste ... Savard had offered a package of 5 players that included the team's two first round pick, with which they'd yet to use to select Mike Komisarek and Alexander Perezhogin.
At the draft table Thrashers' GM Don Waddell admitted that the Canadiens had come closest in luring him into a deal, and later confided that if the Habs had included one player over another he would have gone for it. Savard has never let on who the deal did include, but it was once reavealed that the player he refused to part with was goaltender Mathieu Garon.
Over time, it has slipped out that the players on the table included Richard Zednik for certain, and surprisingly Andrei Markov, who was just beginning to round out and was having adaptation problems to North American lifestyle at the time. Goaltender Jose Theodore was the stumbling block in it all! Benoit Brunet's name was also mentioned as Savard levied to make it a 6 for 1 deal, but Waddell wouldn't budge in that direction.
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Post by GNick99 on Feb 13, 2019 12:16:46 GMT -5
Would Kovalchuk help the Habs... he can score... he can do a lot but unsure about his speed. Cap hit of 6 mill for 2 more years Not sure I watched him play this year but teams have underachieved where he has gone. Instead of taking out selves out of UFA territory next summer I would to make a deal with Arizonea or Edmonton. Teams are mishandling players. Strome and Domi were badly managed, I imagine there are more |
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Post by blny on Feb 13, 2019 13:33:51 GMT -5
Would Kovalchuk help the Habs... he can score... he can do a lot but unsure about his speed. Cap hit of 6 mill for 2 more years Not sure I watched him play this year but teams have underachieved where he has gone. Instead of taking out selves out of UFA territory next summer I would to make a deal with Arizonea or Edmonton. Teams are mishandling players. Strome and Domi were badly managed, I imagine there are more Kid there, second in scoring, having missed a bunch of games. Gal-something.  OEL would be a good get, but his new contract starts next year and it's 5 years at $8.25 million. He'd be a huge upgrade to the top 4, but not at that number. Two million less and I'd be calling. |
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Kovalchuk
Feb 17, 2019 10:01:36 GMT -5
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Post by GNick99 on Feb 17, 2019 10:01:36 GMT -5
Not sure I watched him play this year but teams have underachieved where he has gone. Instead of taking out selves out of UFA territory next summer I would to make a deal with Arizonea or Edmonton. Teams are mishandling players. Strome and Domi were badly managed, I imagine there are more Kid there, second in scoring, having missed a bunch of games. Gal-something. OEL would be a good get, but his new contract starts next year and it's 5 years at $8.25 million. He'd be a huge upgrade to the top 4, but not at that number. Two million less and I'd be calling. No, I wouldn't touch Gal-something again. |
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