Heatley made his NHL debut with the Thrashers in 2001 – 02, leading all rookies in points ( 67 ) and assists ( 41 ) and was second in goal-scoring ( 26 ) behind teammate Ilya Kovalchuk.

The following year, Kovalchuk made his senior international debut with Russia at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, during his rookie NHL season with the Atlanta Thrashers.

Kovalchuk became only the second Thrashers ' player to score in the NHL All-Star Game ( after Heatley ).

Atlanta received defenseman Johnny Oduya, rookie forward Niclas Bergfors, junior prospect Patrice Cormier and a first round selection in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft in exchange for Kovalchuk and defenseman Anssi Salmela ; the teams also traded second round selections in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft.

Going into the 2001 NHL Entry Draft having been named the Top CHL Prospect, Spezza was drafted second overall by the Ottawa Senators after Ilya Kovalchuk went to the Atlanta Thrashers.

After improving to 38 goals and 67 points in his second season, Kovalchuk scored 41 goals in 2003 – 04, making him a co-winner of the Maurice ' Rocket ' Richard Trophy after tying for the league lead in goals with Jarome Iginla of the Calgary Flames and Rick Nash of the Columbus Blue Jackets.

Atlanta received defenceman Johnny Oduya, rookie forward Niclas Bergfors and junior prospect Patrice Cormier, and a first round selection in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft in exchange for Kovalchuk and defenceman Anssi Salmela ; the teams also traded second round selections in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft.

This was the first such hat trick ever recorded by Kovalchuk and second in the Devils ' franchise, following Adam Henrique the month before.

In May 2010, Kovalchuk played for Russia in the 74th IIHF WC in Germany, finishing second.

Iginla responded to being named captain by capturing his second Rocket Richard Trophy, sharing the goal-scoring title with Ilya Kovalchuk and Rick Nash with 41 goals.

In his second NHL season, Nash scored a career-high 41 goals to tie with Jarome Iginla and Ilya Kovalchuk for the Rocket Richard Trophy as league goal-scoring champion.

Internationally, Kovalchuk has played for Russia in the IIHF World U18 Championship, World Junior Championship, World Championship, World Cup and Winter Olympics, highlighted by back-to-back gold medals in the 2008 and 2009 World Championship.

During a game against the Nashville Predators during the season on January 11, 2006, Predators coach Barry Trotz accused Kovalchuk with " always with an illegal stick.

The team also had a fine choice in the 2001 Draft, with first overall pick Ilya Kovalchuk.

Both Heatley and Kovalchuk played their first season in the NHL in 2001 – 02 ; both players were named to the NHL All-Rookie Team and Heatley was awarded the Calder Memorial Trophy as the league's Rookie of the Year.

Ilya Kovalchuk scored eight goals in the first seven games, including two hat tricks, one in a 7 – 2 rout of the Chicago Blackhawks and another in a come-from-behind victory against the Nashville Predators.

Kovalchuk tied for the league lead in goals ( 41 ) with Calgary's Jarome Iginla and Columbus ' Rick Nash.

With NHL superstars Marian Hossa and Ilya Kovalchuk and a healthy goaltender, Kari Lehtonen, the Thrashers clinched their first playoff berth, winning the Southeast Division title with 43 wins and claiming the # 3 seed and home-ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs.

In the final year of his contract, Ilya Kovalchuk and the Thrashers could not come to an agreement on an extension.

Thrashers general manager Don Waddell reportedly offered 12-year, $ 101 million and seven-year, $ 70 million contracts, both of which Kovalchuk turned down.

Rather than potentially losing him to free agency in the off-season, the team traded Kovalchuk on February 4, 2010 to the New Jersey Devils.

Martin St. Louis led the team and the NHL with 94 points ( his 38 goals were fourth-most after the 41 of tied trio Iginla, Rick Nash, and Ilya Kovalchuk ), and won the Hart Memorial Trophy as the league's most valuable player.

* Ilya Kovalchuk ( born 1983 ), left wing for the NHL New Jersey Devils.

As a result, it is possible for several players to share the award, such as when the 2003 – 04 season featured a three-way tie between Jarome Iginla, Ilya Kovalchuk and Rick Nash.

He won the Calder Memorial Trophy for rookie of the year, for which Kovalchuk was also nominated.

He finished the year with the All-Star laden AK Bars Kazan in the Russian Superleague, joining Thrashers teammate and friend Ilya Kovalchuk, among others, but had an unimpressive stint.

Kovalchuk played for Russian Super League club HC Spartak Moscow for two seasons before entering the NHL.

In club-level competition, Kovalchuk wore the number 17 as a tribute to Valeri Kharlamov, a Soviet superstar in the 1970s.

Kovalchuk with the Thrashers during the 2005 – 06 NHL season.

Entering his NHL rookie season in 2001 – 02, Kovalchuk scored 29 goals and 51 points despite missing 17 games with a season-ending shoulder injury.

Kovalchuk also participated in his first NHL All-Star Game in 2004.

Due to the 2004 – 05 NHL lockout, Kovalchuk returned to Russia, playing for both Ak Bars Kazan and Khimik Moscow Oblast of the Russian Superleague.

`` It's the second time War Ax hands made a play for that money.

Last week it opened at the J. B. Speed Museum in Louisville, at the very moment that a second Schiele exhibit was being made ready at the Felix Landau gallery in Los Angeles.

He had made such a fuss about buying that second car that he knew he was vulnerable.

When we look at countries like Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and Burma, where substantial progress has been made in creating a minimum supply of modern men and of social overhead capital, and where institutions of centralized government exist, we find a second category of countries with a different set of problems and hence different priorities for policy.

The second test mailing ( to 100 companies ) was made in July, 1960.

We should say that we made our point with feeling the first time and little or no feeling the second time, but that it was the same point we were making.

It would be made in three waves -- the first to lay down a smokescreen, the second to drop the gas bombs, the third to shower incendiaries which would burn everything below.

His rage had built up as he made his way here from the second floor, helped by the quantity of champagne he had consumed.

No, Cady, he made second team.

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However, Bradman made a second ball duck, bowled by a Eric Hollies googly that sent him into retirement with a career average of 99. 94.

Praetor Anicius Probus first gave him a place in the council and then in about 372 made him consular prefect or " Governor " of Liguria and Emilia, with headquarters at Milan, which was then ( beside Rome ) the second capital in Italy.

In the funeral games at the pyre of Patroclus, he contended with Odysseus and Antilochus for the prize in the footrace ; but Athena, who was hostile towards him and favored Odysseus, made him stumble and fall, so that he won only the second prize.

The second and much more formidable host of crusaders gradually made its way to Constantinople, led in sections by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemond of Taranto, Raymond IV of Toulouse and other important members of the western nobility.

The second half of the book, " Personal Stories " ( subject to additions, removal and retitling in subsequent editions ), is made of AA members ' redemptive autobiographical sketches.

She testified that after leaving the EEOC, she had had two " inconsequential " phone conversations with Thomas, and had seen him personally on two occasions ; once to get a job reference and the second time when he made a public appearance in Oklahoma where she was teaching.

(€ 1. 56 million as a group ) The gate and TV income further slipped in 2009 – 10 season, made a net loss of € 21, 917, 292 ( already boosted by the sale of Alberto Aquilani ; € 22 million as a group ) despite sporting success ( the second in 2009 – 10 Serie A ).

The graphics are generated by a custom graphics chip called MARIA which is very different from other second and third generation consoles, and made it more difficult for game programmers to make the transition.

After he recovered, he made a second effort and went back into the desert to a farther mountain by the Nile called Pispir, now Der el Memun, opposite Crocodilopolis.

This made Clinton only the second U. S. president to be impeached ( the first being Andrew Johnson ).

The Marquis de Feuquières writing after the battle described the scene – " They advanced in four lines … As they approached they advanced their second and fourth lines into the intervals of their first and third lines ; so that when they made their advance upon us, they formed only one front, without any intermediate spaces.

A major modification to Noth's theory was made in 1973 by the American scholar Frank M. Cross, to the effect that two editions of the history could be distinguished, the first and more important from the court of king Josiah in the late 7th century, and the second Noth's 6th century Exilic history, and other scholars have detected many more authors / editors than either Noth or Cross allowed for.

In his second first-class match he made 92 against a Barbados attack containing Joel Garner and Malcolm Marshall, two greats of West Indies teams.

His 400 not out also made him the second player after Donald Bradman to score two Test triple-centuries, and the second after Bill Ponsford to score two first-class quadruple-centuries.