Ilya Kovalchuk
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"Ilya Valeryevich Kovalchuk" is a Russian people/Russian professional ice hockey Winger (ice hockey)/left winger currently playing for SKA Saint Petersburg of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He debuted in the Russian Superleague (RSL) with HC Spartak Moscow/Spartak Moscow, before continuing his career in the National Hockey League (NHL). Drafted first overall in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft by the Atlanta Thrashers, he began his NHL career with them in 2001–02 NHL season/2001–02. After eight seasons with the Thrashers, he was traded to the New Jersey Devils in February 2010, and later signed a 15-year, $100 million contract during the off-season after a 17-year, $102 million was rejected by the league as being an attempt to circumvent salary cap restrictions. Three years later, he retired from the NHL on July 11, 2013, having played 11 seasons. Kovalchuk is fifth all-time in overtime goals scored (14), and 18th all time in goals per game average (.511). He is the fifth highest scoring List of NHL statistical leaders by country/Russian in NHL history.

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This was one game, ... We should just forget about it tonight, watch the video tomorrow, work hard and fix the problems and find our game.

I live in my car now. My girlfriend -- we have a baby sitter, so everything will be OK.

That's my job, to score goals and score as many as I can. I don't know if I'm going to be the leader of scoring or not. I just want to help my team win as many games as I can. Maybe I'm going to block the shot and we're going to win the game.

These guys scored a lot of goals against Washington, ... We didn't do the right things. We didn't work hard.

It's my job to score goals, ... I love to score here at Philips Arena. The fans go crazy, everybody is happy. I like it.

I'm just going to play my game, you know? Because the rules have changed right now, I think there's been more room for offensive guys and a lot of shots, a lot of opportunities.

It felt good to be back on the ice tonight.

On the power play, I'm in a really good position, ... Guys are giving me the puck for the one-timer and I get good chances. I played the point back when I played in Russia. It's a really good spot, you know. I have lots of shots and lots of chances. I practice a lot at it and it's working. The goals are coming and the wins are coming.

He had a couple of chances, ... It's coming. It's just his first game and I hope he's going to get much better. We were playing exactly the same way as we did the last couple of years. When I got the puck I always looked for him. But we're going to work on that in practice [Thursday] and against Toronto [on Friday] he's going to score a couple.