Year: 2010

Ilya Kovalchuk Sparkled for Russia; Andy Greene did not for USA – Summary of Devils at 2010 World Championships John Fischer In Lou We Trust May 23, 2010 Kovalchuk shouldn’t feel too bad about his own performance. While the IIHF directorate named his teammate Datsyuk the best forward of the tournament and the media snubbed

Stars Win 5-4 On Grahams’s OT BlastHundred Degree Hockey May 19, 2010 Ethan Graham had yet to score a Calder Cup playoff goal in his entire career. In fact, Graham had only suited up for four playoffs games for the Stars before tonight. “It’s probably my biggest [career goal]. I think I had an overtime

Ilya Kovalchuk Contributed More on Defense than Evgeni Malkin – A Look at Kovalchuk’s 2009-10 GVT John Fischer In Lou We Trust May 19, 2010 Ilya Kovalchuk is a fantastic sniper, a player who has put up 338 goals and 304 assists in 621 games. Standing officially at 6’2″ and 230 pounds, Kovalchuk will be

Russian power playBeats Finland, wins group, gets ready for Canada. Russia rolled over Finland, 5-0, getting goals by five different players and a shutout by Semyon Varlamov. Ilya Kovalchuk got two assists and Maxim Afinogenov a goal and an assist. “With the new rules it is all about special teams and I think our penalty

One of the big reasons I’m so interested in advanced statistics is because they provide a different perspective into a player’s performance. For example, we know that Ilya Kovalchuk is a goal scorer. He’s scored 338 goals in 631 games in his NHL career. This is simple. But how impressive has been his performances? What

Jokinen sinks SlovakiaFinland clinches quarterfinal spot with 5-2 win.IIHF May 17, 2010 Jussi Jokinen scored twice, his first goals of the tournament, and Pekka Rinne made 27 saves as Finland beat Slovakia 5-2 and secured its spot in the quarterfinal. “It was another must-win game for us, we’ve had four of those now. This is

Ilya Kovalchuk’s line with Pavel Datsyuk and Evgeni Malkin has Russia on a roll at the 2010 IIHF World Championship in Germany. Led by Datsyuk’s hat trick, the trio collected 10 points in Sunday’s 6-1 win over Denmark. Kovalchuk, the Russian captain, tallied three assists and is tied with Alex Ovechkin for the team points

John Glennon The Tennessean May 17, 2010 Preds goa­lie Pekka Rinne appears to be back in strong form at The World Cham­pionship in Germany. Rinne lost his first game of the tour­na­ment, as Den­mark beat Fin­land 4-1 in the teams’ ope­ner. But he’s reboun­ded to win his last two games, and now has a 2-1

Daugavins, a veteran at 22Young Latvian part of new, post-Irbe waveIIHF May 14, 2010 Kaspars Daugavins first came to international prominence at the 2006 World Championship in his native Riga. Only 17 years old at the time, he played just a small role on the Latvian national team, but as he has developed, he has