Has a player ever refused to get off the ice?

[Terry Yake]

didn't keenan once force one of his players to stay on the ice for 5 minutes?

i forget who it was. maybe kovalev?

 

[Jauffre]

Kovalev had a 5-minute shift on February 23, 1994. How has nobody said this?

 

[NyQuil]

Anyone think to bring up that Russian who used to play for the Rangers?

 

[No More Subban]

Alexei Kovalev.

You heard it here first

 

[vid387]

That shift is great. Draws two penalties and scores a goal. That's great production for 5 minutes. What does Keenan say to him after that to actually make it seem like a punishment?

 

[Crease]

"No stay out there."

"No stay out there."

Five minutes later he's winning a face-off clean against Adam Oates and ripping a clapper top shelf.

At the end of it all, Keenan had to have Mess and Leetch pull him side and explain, "No what coach is trying to tell you is come off when you're supposed to come off."

Classic Kovalev.

 

[euhchepas]

"No stay out there."

"No stay out there."

Five minutes later he's winning a face-off clean against Adam Oates and ripping a clapper top shelf.

At the end of it all, Keenan had to have Mess and Leetch pull him side and explain, "No what coach is trying to tell you is come off when you're supposed to come off."

Classic Kovalev.

to be fair he drew 2 penalities and scored... the coach should have been clearer

 

[SidGenoMario]

Wasn't there that one Russian player for the Rangers that was on the ice for 7 minutes until Dustin Rose was outhouse?

 

[HockeyFan100]

I seem to recall some guy named Alex Kovalev having a really long shift once.

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

Peter Forsberg once told me that Alexei Kovalev stayed on the ice for five minutes one time.

 

[Plural]

How many Kovalev references can we fit in one thread? I vote for 950+

 

[ottawa]

Wasn't there that one Russian player for the Rangers that was on the ice for 7 minutes until Dustin Rose was outhouse?

What was his name?

 

[Plural]

Of course he's ************. You don't really believe Ovechkin blatantly refuses to listen to his coach do you?

This "Ovechkin is a coaching cancer" thing is one of the biggest (and weirdest) myths this forum has. Every single coach he's had has explicitly said that Ovechkin is one of the most coachable players in the game. He does what the coach asks from him.

 

[kk87]

Weiss had a 5:43 shift a few years back, and despite a couple icings he had plenty of opportunities to get off the ice through that span..

 

[hitman9172]

My grandpa used to tell me stories about some Russian guy that once had a 5-minute shift for the New York Rangers. Probably just an urban legend.

 

[rhinoshawarma]

Omg what have you started.

TBT http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=1522281&highlight=longest+shift

 

[Wabit]

Suter under Yoe avoided shift changes/set his own minutes on the PP. You'd look at the bench and his replacement would be standing waiting to go as Suter skates by with the puck. Puck cleared and the same thing happens again.

 

[TedLundy]

There was this Russian player who was out there for 4 minutes, might have been 5 minutes. I dont remember.

 

[HF007]

Kovalev was once forced to stay out for 5 minutes but ended up scoring

 

[Karl Eriksson]

I thought Kovalev once had a 5 min shift. Could be wrong.

 

[ramdm5]

I read somewhere about this guy who was 5 min on ice. Kovechkin or something.

 

[Eisen]

Kovalchuk for the Isles? Something like that.

 

[mm11]

Keenan one time refused to let kovalev come off the ice lol

yes, I remember this, didn't Kovalev score when left out there by Keenan too? I think Kovy thought he was being rewared and Keenan was probably steamed...

pretty funny...

 

[kmart]

i remember a story about jagr on his capitals days. they used him on the pp infront of the net, it didnt work out so they sub him in and in the next shifts he was mad in refused to go on the ice... at least i read it like that on hfboards, hopefully some1 knows more about that.

 

[NyQuil]

Wayne Gretzky said that Kovalev once had a five minute shift and it was the greatest shift of all time.