The New Jersey Devils announced this morning that Ilya Kovalchuk has signed the exact same 17-year $102 million contract that was rejected by the NHL two weeks ago, and are submitting it to the league along with a recently discovered birth certificate that claims the Russian is 23, not 27. “It was our bad really,” [...]
Dozens of Russian-born NHL players have been receiving surprise letters in the mail this week, demanding they immediately return to their homeland to complete several years of “mandatory military hockey duty.” Signed by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the letters demand each of the players to return to Russia and prepare for the great hockey [...]
As the Ilya Kovalchuk NHL hostage crisis – henceforth known as “Ilya Gonna Come My Way?” – reaches day 11, the desire for something – anything – please god, just tell us what he had for lunch, prove he’s alive for christsake! – becomes overwhelming. More than a week has passed since the prized left [...]
July 12, 2010 | Posted in
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Thousands of angry Canadian hockey fans poured into the streets of Vancouver Tuesday night, bemoaning the Team Canada’s paltry 8-2 victory over Germany to move them onto the quarterfinals in the Olympic tournament. “We don’t deserve to move on,” said Pierre Boucher, while setting a Canadian flag aflame. “How do they expect us to believe [...]
Tens of thousands of New Jersey Devils fans woke up this morning to what they previously thought impossible — their team had, in fact, traded for superstar forward Ilya Kovalchuk. The deal was announced Thursday night and sent defenseman Johnny Oduya, Niklas Bergfors, prospect Patrice Cormier and a 2010 1st round draft pick to the [...]
Late breaking news from the rumor mills, mes amis. Several sources have told me tonight that a deal was all but done to send Atlanta Thrashers forward Ilya Kovalchuk to the New Jersey Devils for rookie forward Niklas Bergfors and an autographed photo of Bruce Springstein but the superstar nixed the deal at the last [...]
February 2, 2010 | Posted in
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