A year after seeing their most dazzling player depart for the KHL, could another superstar seeking a return to the NHL interest the Detroit Red Wings?
There’s buzz in the hockey world that Ilya Kovalchuk wants to come back to the U.S. four years after splitting for his native Russia. Kovalchuk played for SKA St. Petersburg, which for the past year also has been home to Pavel Datsyuk. Datsyuk and Kovalchuk celebrated winning the Gagarin Cup earlier this spring, but where one wants to leave, the other has no such plans.
“I have been speaking to Pavel, and he is happy he is home,” agent Dan Milstein told the Free Press on Tuesday night from Cologne, Germany, where he is attending the World Championship.