Konstantin Koltsov

[ikyan]

He makes/made old brick-hands Tangradi look good with the puck by comparison.

 

[Gold Diamond]

I miss Josef Beranek.

 

[Zen Arcade]

Posting to say I still hate Drake Berehowsky.

I was at a game where he got called twice for closing his hand on the puck. How often do you see that called, let alone twice with the same guy like ten minutes apart?

 

[Darth Vitale]

I miss Josef Beranek.

 

[Jacob]

I'm a little defensive about Koltsov. He had good hands. His first goal is a testament to that. Him juking Chara twice in the same game is another. He just couldn't combine his hands with his skating together. because of his crazy upper body motions to get to top flight. But he wasn't your typical Euro. He hit, he crashed the net, he played with reckless abandon. He was fun to watch.

 

[Darth Vitale]

I won't deny that.

He was fun to watch (at a time when almost nothing else about the Penguins was fun to watch).

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Let's not forget that Koltsov scored one of the biggest goals in WBS either.



Any excuse to get a little Tom Grace in there, too.

 

[Ugene Magic]

 

[hiptanaka]

Quite possibly the fastest hockey player in the last several decades, NHL or otherwise.

 

[Penguinator]

Gotta love how Kolstov seems slightly stressed & Malone looks terrified while Fleury has a hard time not cracking up in that promo's intro.

 

[Jesus Vitale]

Wow. What a sick first goal. I imagine people had high hopes for him after seeing that.

 

[Deport Ogie]

Let's not forget that Koltsov scored one of the biggest goals in WBS either.



Any excuse to get a little Tom Grace in there, too.

The names I see and hear in that video both please and sadden me. Hussey, Endicott, Beech, Ouellet, Andy Freakin' Chiodo

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Oh got, Kris Beech in that video...

IT HURTS...IT HURTS!

 

[vorky]

Sorry for writing here, I just want to ask. Is it true that he has just passed away in Miami, USA? Source

 

[HandshakeLine]

lol, what? no. nobody's reported that in any English or Czech sources

and considering the fact that he's dating aryna sabalenka, it'd be all over the papers if he did die.

 

[The Great Mighty Poo]

One of the fastest players I ever saw, hands couldn't catch up to his feet, was a pretty decent board guy

 

[The Great Mighty Poo]

I'm a little defensive about Koltsov. He had good hands. His first goal is a testament to that. Him juking Chara twice in the same game is another. He just couldn't combine his hands with his skating together. because of his crazy upper body motions to get to top flight. But he wasn't your typical Euro. He hit, he crashed the net, he played with reckless abandon. He was fun to watch.

Yep at a time when all we really had to look forward to was the draft Koltsov was a fun guy to watch, man could that f***ing guy skate, he could go from behind his own net to behind the attacking net in the blink of an eye.

 

[SEALBound]

A friend of mine is a long time Pens fan and always name drops Konstantin Koltsov as being an awful player during years of the Penguins being in the basement. How was thought of during his career by Pens fans and what was expected of him at the time?

Konstantin, is that you?

You had elite speed and that was about it. You were just caught it in that odd assortment of misfit toys that plagued the Penguins from the second they traded Jagr.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Koltsov > Harkins

 

[The Great Mighty Poo]

Posting to say I still hate Drake Berehowsky.

I was at a game where he got called twice for closing his hand on the puck. How often do you see that called, let alone twice with the same guy like ten minutes apart?

I remember a game when The Drake lost his left glove and broke his stick twice on the same shift.

 

[eXile3]

He was incredibly gifted with his speed but that was the issue. He was so fast I don’t think he ever had to develop other aspects of his game.

 

[The Great Mighty Poo]

Koltsov > Harkins

Holzinger > Harkins

 

[Gurglesons]

lol, what? no. nobody's reported that in any English or Czech sources

and considering the fact that he's dating aryna sabalenka, it'd be all over the papers if he did die.

Yohe tweeted it out so it must be false.

 

[The Great Mighty Poo]

He was incredibly gifted with his speed but that was the issue. He was so fast I don’t think he ever had to develop other aspects of his game.

This, I think if he ever developed something remotely close to a secondary trait he could have been a prototype for what Hagelin became.

 

[Big Poppa Pump]

RIP KK