Demzor is sure sporting those Oilers goggles.
Yaks may have produced well in his first season, but that's all he did. If I recall, his +/- was in the crapper, and in this case it wasn't an irrelevant stat. He drifted around at the blue line and paid little to no attention to the other end of the rink. One of those cases where the player produced, but didn't help the team win.
Kovalchuk was a prime historical example of this in his tenure with Atlanta. But like I said, I don't even see Yakupov's offense topping out near Kovy's.
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