Kings` Ilya Kovalchuk is still trying get up to speed in the NHL after spending five years in Russia
(LA Times Clippers)

There are more than a few flecks of gray in Ilya Kovalchuk´s hair now, five years after he left the New Jersey Devils and the NHL to play in his native Russia. In another sure sign of the passage of time, the pace in the NHL has become much faster during his absence. Kovalchuk acknowledged that...