I’m sure by now you have seen the flubbed shootout attempt by New Jersey Devils $100 million super star Ilya Kovalchuk. But if you haven’t yet, let me give you a quick rundown of what happened last night in front of his hometown fans.
Against the Buffalo Sabres, two of the bottom feeders of the league skated to a 4-4 tie after regulation and overtime. Both skaters in the first round of the shootout failed to score. Buffalo’s second player scored whole New Jersey’s third scored to send it to a fourth round. Buffalo’s fourth skater scored and all that Sabres goalie Jhonas Enroth needed to do was make a save against a player with a $100 million contract on his hands. The rest as they say, was history:
After the game, Kovalchuk simply said the puck rolled off his stick. It more looked like the beginning of the train wreck season the Devils have had so far. This is something that only happens to bad teams, such as former Detroit Lions quarterback Dan Orlovsky infamously running out of bounds accidentally to avoid a sack against the Minnesota Vikings in their history-making 0-16 season of 2008. By the way EB, do you still want to trade for Kovalchuk?
He just appears to mishandle the puck as he’s skating in. I mean, I think there have been bigger blunders in the history of the shootout, but this is just such a testament to the way that things have gone for the Devils so far this season.
I totally agree. Only stuff like this would get shown all over for a bad team that was supposed to be Cup favorites. If they were in first place, or this happened to the best player on the Panthers, Oilers, or any other player not making his type of money we would not hear about this
[…] Offense: With recent headlines of, “Devils Sign 12 Players, Mostly Minor Leaguers”, you begin to wonder what the organization is thinking to turn this sinking ship around. Oh, that’s right, the team will heavily rely on Ilya Kovalchuk and his 15 year, $100 million dollar deal. […]