Alexei Kovalev

But he wasn't washed.

Kovalev.

Kovalev's a good one.

But anyway.

I remember watching that season, and then it wasn't really on social media.

And

I'm like...

No, and Kovalev just disappeared in the middle of the season, and the broadcast didn't say anything.

But I'll tell you a funny story.

In Utica, Kovalev, he came over with the

Rangers.

He

So, you know, that guy was unbelievable.

Rangers did pretty good

with their first two Russians, Zubov and Kovalev.

You can't go better than that.

yeah

that's funny you mentioned uh like uh it was so different but still like Sergio you're you're uh you're telling the Brett Hall story about the testing we it was still kind of happening later on like with the big superstars I remember my first year in Ottawa when Alex Kovalev signed A big superstar, a bit of a different, great guy, but a bit of a different cap too sometimes.

And I was like, you know, I was doing like the VO2 max, like testing, like, and we were kind of paired together.

And I was like, oh, fuck, this guy looks like a fucking machine.

was wrong about Tamer.

Tamer was acquired from Pittsburgh with Peter Nedved for Alex Kovalev.

He went to Atlanta in the expansion draft.

You didn't get charlied.

I grew up watching you guys play.

And you played with three of my favorite players, talking about Lemieux, Jager, and also Alexei Kovalev.

Alexei Kovalev is one of my sneaky, probably top five favorite players of all time.

Can you just speak about each one of those players just for a little bit? Like I said, this is your episode, but I have not had anybody on that has played with people, you know, the greats like that.

Well, you know, they're all unique.

That'd be great.

But... where does he fit and how does he look because he didn't have a good year last year no i keep like people see him playing wilkes-barre and they think oh he's so great at this level he's much better at that level yeah i i'm not saying he wasn't very good in wilkes-barre he didn't look like alexei kovalev in wilkes-barre like he still wasn't putting up huge numbers that would make you suggest that he's too good for that league but to me watching him play last year he looked like a classic tweener like Good enough to play in the NHL a little bit.

Probably better suited for AHL play.

Now, that doesn't mean he can't get better.

...

Alexi Kovalev.

Uh, so-

Wow

Had the good second half.

Sort of like the way Alexei Kovalev used to.

So, just...

Can you be consistent throughout the entire year? Does he have a role? And is he going to get first team power play minutes? Are they going to still treat it like the power play? You got power play one and the rest because then it's, then it's almost pointless to even have Alexei Wapadier on this team.