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Is Kovalchuk ‘Fixed’?
by Paul on 09/19/10 at 09:10 AM ET
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from Kevin Paul Dupont of the Boston Globe,
The NHL made clear its disdain for New Jersey’s attempt to circumvent the CBA with its initial offer to coveted free agent winger Ilya Kovalchuk. Yep, a $3 million fine has a way of capturing attention, not to mention the first-round pick the Devils will forfeit on or before June 2014, as well as a third-rounder next June.
In the end, the Devils, so in love with Kovy’s scoring magic, gave up all of that and . . . AND! . . . a first- and second-round pick this past June and . . . AND! . . . Niclas Bergfors, Johnny Oduya, and prospect Patrice Cormier. Amid the protracted taffy pull it took to sign Kovalchuk, one might have forgotten the original ransom the Devils paid to get him out of Atlanta.
All of that for a guy, remember, that Devils general manager Lou Lamoriello said back in April needed some fixing. The things Kovalchuk does wrong, Lamoriello said in the wake of the Devils’ first-round playoff elimination, can’t be remedied in a short stay.
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