You funny guy. Every player has holes - even Gretzky, Howe, Orr, etc. They would even tell you that.
Thats beyond the point
Kovalchuk was so much better than any other forward when he was here. The Devils never had a forward like him. Elias, even in his best seasons, never controlled the game like Kovalchuk could and benefitted from good line chemistry, same with Parise who just netted in rebounds and then had his point totals drastically go down when he played with different linemates on a different system.
Yeah, the highest tier of this generation is Ovechkin/Crosby/Malkin. But the next tier is Kovalchuk and a other select few players that the Devils never truly had. This team won its championships because of Niedermayer/Stevens/Brodeur, which is all fine and dandy but it was beautiful to see someone like Kovalchuk play on this team because the Devils team really never had star forwards to Kovalchuk's level in their prime.
Nobody is as exciting as him to watch on the ice, end of story. Kovalchuk would change the emotion of a game and his dangling was down right impossible to stop at its best.
Tell me a player that could do this on the Devils:
It's not even about the miss, because he dangled 4 Canes players as a Thrasher and scored a much prettier goal. Its just that nobody on the team had the skill to ever do that.
The guy was the best forward (maybe best player) to ever play for this franchise.
Yes, Kovalchuk is better than a player who scored 7 goals in 79 NHL games
Funny how Thornton keeps getting brought up when again, he signed a one-year contract (not the three this guy allegedly wanted) with a team he's been with and the Sharks didn't have to trade for him, nor was he changing leagues. It's basically willful ignorance to keep drumming in the comparison as players as if their situations are anything close to the same.
And the stuff about the best player in the franchise history, it's amazing the extent some of you were so starved for a flashy forward to show up here you've built him up into god mode.
Kovalchuk couldn't play defense to save his life. Elias was 10x the greater player overall.
Then you have Brodeur, Stevens, Niedermayer.
I'd take them all over again over Kovalchuk in a draft.
lol Elias is absolute garbage in comparison to Kovalchuk
Don't even compare a guy who literally was a passenger for every cup run compared to the guy who carried every team on his back for years
lol Elias is absolute garbage in comparison to Kovalchuk
Don't even compare a guy who literally was a passenger for every cup run compared to the guy who carried every team on his back for years
Get the **** out of here with this garbage.
lol Elias is absolute garbage in comparison to Kovalchuk
Don't even compare a guy who literally was a passenger for every cup run compared to the guy who carried every team on his back for years
lol Elias is absolute garbage in comparison to Kovalchuk
Don't even compare a guy who literally was a passenger for every cup run compared to the guy who carried every team on his back for years
lol Elias is absolute garbage in comparison to Kovalchuk
Don't even compare a guy who literally was a passenger for every cup run compared to the guy who carried every team on his back for years
lol Elias is absolute garbage in comparison to Kovalchuk
Don't even compare a guy who literally was a passenger for every cup run compared to the guy who carried every team on his back for years
lol Elias is absolute garbage in comparison to Kovalchuk
Don't even compare a guy who literally was a passenger for every cup run compared to the guy who carried every team on his back for years