Ilya Kovalchuk

About Ilya Kovalchuk

NHL winger who played for the Atlanta Thrashers for the first seven years of his career until being traded to the New Jersey Devils in 2010. In July of 2013, he controversially departed from the NHL in the middle of a long contract.

Ilya Kovalchuk before fame

The Atlanta Thrashers selected him first overall in the 2001 NHL Draft.

Achievement of Ilya Kovalchuk

He got a 15-year, $100 million contract in 2010 after the league rejected a 17-year, $102 million proposal, but his NHL career ended before he had reached the halfway mark of his contract.

Ilya Kovalchuk family life

Valeri, his father, was a basketball standout for the Soviet national team. Philipp, Artem, and Karolina are his three children from his marriage to Nicole Andrazajtis Kovalchuk in 2008.

Associations of Ilya Kovalchuk

He was a member of the Atlanta Thrashers from 2001 to 2004 and played with forward Dany Heatley.

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