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Ilya Kovalchuk has been a fixture on his team's power play units for the last three seasons; however his impact was not as high as you may think. This post looks as to what it was in terms of scoring and shooting and asks how this could be.

Ilya Kovalchuk is a fantastic shooter and a goal scoring machine, but what impact does he have on a team when he steps on the ice? This post answers that with an in-depth look into the on-ice and on-ice impact numbers for Kovalchuk and other NHL forwards from the 2007-08 through 2009-10 regular seasons.