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Ilya Kovalchuk was one of the players who wasted little time deciding to head to the KHL after the lockout was put in place. The sniper took advantage of the KHL's three NHL players-per-team policy and joined St. Petersburg-based SKA.On Wednesday he scored his first goal as the SKA captain (that's right, a player Erling Haaland Jersey who could potentially leave at any moment is the captain) thanks to a pretty feed from teammate Viktor Tikhonov. Oh, but don't discount the top-shelf finish from very close range by Kovalchuk. There's a reason why he's one of the absolute best goal-scorers in the world.This might be the first goal in the KHL this season for Kovalchuk, but he wouldn't mind if many, many more followed. :"I really don't care, the main thing for me is hockey. I really like it here and if Shop Player Jersey there isn't a season there, then I'd be delighted to play it out here and try to do it as well as po sible." Don't misread that to mean he's going to stay in the KHL the same way that threatened he might. Kovalchuk has a contract in the NHL and whenever the lockout is lifted he will be back to honor that. The point is he's not in too much of a rush to get back to the NHL; he' AC Milan Jersey s happy where he is at the moment. Perhaps too happy."The main thing is that all the Juventus Jersey guys have now shown the team owners that they can go and play somewhere, do their favorite thing and not just stay home," he said. "If you stay home then you can start getting depre sed and clearly the team owners are hoping for that, but I think that this time things will be a little different."The good news for owners and the league is that Kovalchuk isn't the majority. More players are happier to be playing in the NHL than not and that doesn't account for the players not playing at all, which is the overwhelming majority of locked-out NHLers. Just because he's happy playing for St. Petersburg doesn't mean he's not thinking about the negotiations on the CBA, though."For some reason, they're still refusing to talk about the serious problems, but instead talk about some borderline i sues."I Local Jersey think Kovalchuk just read the mind of every NHL fan.