Vyacheslav Bykov: "Kovalchuk can add to SKA"

Former head coach of the Russian national team Vyacheslav Bykov believes that Ilya Kovalchuk, who returned to the KHL, can benefit from the end of the overseas career. According to a 53-year-old specialist, the forward can add to SKA, including due to a larger site than the NHL.

“I am sure that Ilya carefully considered everything,” RIA Novosti quotes Bykova. “It seems to me that the locout became the decisive moment when he played in SKA, looked at the Continental League from the inside. In St. Petersburg, they count on him, and, in my opinion, he can add in SKA. Because in Russia there is a different area, more space.”

Recall that Kovalchuk achieved a zeroing of business relations with the former New Jersey club, under a contract with which he still had 12 years and $ 77 million from a 15-year agreement for 100 million, concluded with the Devils in September 2010.