Nikolai Kovalenko highlight 2021 2022 KHL

Everyone is watching the offense while in the Offensive zone already. His skills are slick. Though on the highlights showing rushes, he’s not the fastest skater. Which to me is not a fit in Colorado’s system. Kind of like a Ry-JO. We shall see though. He’s already 24 and I don’t get all the hype

This guy is going to fit in nicely in Colorado, I think. The style he plays is very close to how Colorado likes to play. Guy can skate, quick passing, decent one-touch game, finding seam passes through traffic, seems to be a good position player. I know this is a highlight reel so they are all good, but from that one play where he had no business having the puck passed back to him and they still scored on the play, I think that ability to get out of tight spots and make a play happen is going to serve him well in the NHL.

He is finally in Colorado.. excited to see how he turns out but tempering my expectations.

Nice signing by Avs