Former Penguins player Alexei Kovalev has decided to sign a two-year deal with the club, one week after the same team signed a deal with Flyers right wing Nikolay Zherdev. But Alexei Kovalev is not leaving the NHL quietly, or at least with his criticism in his mouth.
He criticized the Senators' former coach Cory Clouston as well as the media, because he said he couldn't understand what Clouston was trying to do in Ottawa. He said that players were not treated kindly and that when he benched players, he didn't explain to them why he did it. He also criticized the journalists because he believes they're not that interested in hockey.
Wow. Just wow, Kovalev. First you want to go overseas and now you leave while throwing dirt onto a Canadien team. Sure, Ottawa has had problems with winning and they did miss the playoffs last year, but I wouldn't go too far as to say that the journalists don't care about hockey or that Cory Clouston tried his best to make this team a winning one. After all, he did help Ottawa make the playoffs two years ago, so I don't know why you can really throw dirt at him just because of that. If the system didn't work, maybe that's why they're bringing in a new coach. So why don't you leave Ottawa alone? They've got enough problems with you trying to bring them down even harder.
I, for once, am glad that Kovalev is going overseas, because this guy has done very little to help Pittsburgh and Ottawa in the regular season as well as in the playoffs. He'll probably do very well in the KHL and even though he did fine as a player here, as well as win the 1994 Stanley Cup, sometimes you just need to go play in another country closer to home.
Kovalev might leave, but hockey goes on. With or without Kovalev, the league is still better. Players keep constantly improving and now that Ottawa has gotten rid of this baggage, they'll probably be in a better situation to revamp their team and get to the playoffs. Let's just hope Ottawa...and Kovalev knows what they're doing.
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