Bright Future?

This is Andrei Kovalenko. He was a flawed NHL player but useful in a narrow view. Scored a huge goal for the Oilers in a G7 (against Dallas, tied it 3-3) and did some other things too. Kovalenko was listed as 5.10, 215 but there should have been an asterisk that added "plus a healthy appetite for things that don't make you a better NHL player."The Oilers had some useful hands (Smyth, Weight, Marchant, others) and Kovalenko popped 32 goals in his best season in Edmonton.Flawed? Yes in spades.How did Ron Low do it? Well, he had some guys like Kovalenko (Czerkawski was another, Satan was on that team) who could score goals and some big men who could rattle and hum (DeBrusk, Buchberger, Hulbig played a little) and some guys who could check well (Grier, Moreau, Lindgren, Rem the Gem).They also had Doug Weight, Ryan Smyth, Jason Arnott and the underrated Todd Marchant and Dean McAmmond who could do a few things.That's a lot of talent, and really very few of these men wer...