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Originally Posted by Oil Stain
So Kovalchuk is Dawes now?
Pretty sure a lot of fans here coveted Kovalchuk when he was still a free agent.
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You specifically cited him being good in the KHL as a factor. Nigel Dawes has very equivalent stats. So while there is not a small amount of sarcasm in that response, the point is that lots of players are good in the KHL, especially old NHLers. The last time Kovalchuk was in the NHL he was 29 and coming off a half season for the same KHL team during the lockout (he was eating up the KHL then too). He then proceeded to score 11 goals in 38 games in the NHL.
Anyway the point is that there's no reason to think he's going to be anything like the Neal addition. Heck, he will barely make up the Gaborik points if he scores 15.