In case you missed it, Ilya Kovalchuk played for the Washington Capitals for a minute there.
By the Numbers
| 7 | games played |
| 14.7 | time on ice per game |
| 1 | goals |
| 3 | assists |
| 55.7 | 5-on-5 shot-attempt percentage, adjusted |
| 61.9 | 5-on-5 expected goal percentage, adjusted |
| 44.3 | 5-on-5 goal percentage, adjusted |
Visualization by HockeyViz
About this visualization: This series of charts made by Micah Blake McCurdy of hockeyviz.com shows lots of information for the player over the season. A short description of each chart:
- Most common teammates during 5-on-5
- Ice time per game, split up by game state
- 5-on-5 adjusted shot attempts by the team (black) and opponents (red)
- 5-on-5 adjusted shooting percentage by the team (black) and opponents (red)
- Individual scoring events by the player
- 5-on-5 adjusted offensive (black) and defensive (red) zone starts
Peter’s Take
In Washington’s five-game series against the Islanders, forward Ilya Kovalchuk put one shot on goal in sixty minutes of ice-time.
(It did not go in.)
Kovalchuk returned to the NHL last season. In January he signed a one-year deal with Montreal for $700k. The Habs retained half of that when they traded Kovalchuk to Washington at the deadline.
Hmm. I usually do some kind of research here and make a data visualization. But I’ve got nothing. So, um, here’s a picture of Leonard Nimoy with some garlic.
I’m not sure what I’m supposed to say here. This was an extremely low-risk experiment by Brian MacLellan, and it extremely did not work.
Kovalchuk spent much of the playoffs with Hagelin and Boyd. I tried to pull up their combined stats, but my monitor started gushing blood. That can’t be good.
The following forwards got fewer shots than Kovalchuk in the playoffs: Oskar Lindblom. That’s the entire list.
We’re told Kovalchuk is going back to Montreal next season. Cool.
Kovy on RMNB
- New guy fought for other new guy.
- Here is Kovy’s goal song. You did not hear it.
- Because his lone goal came on the road at MSG.
- One time he hit a guy.
- Kovalchuk on the Caps: They have “a great chance to win something special.” (Reader: they did not.)
- A good picture of the Russian Caps:
- Finally, here are a bunch of stories that made it seem like Kovy would be in shape for the loffs: family workout I, family workout II, punching bag, whatever this is.
Your Turn
So, uh, sup?
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