McLellan, on Ilya Kovalchuk’s preseason body of work:
Real good spurts and then some structure things that we have to work on, but we’ll continue to work with him. You can see the talent, the creativity at times, but then there are other times when we need to be really structured and doing things right because we’re relying on five pieces working together. So that’s where we’re at with Kovy right now.

McLellan, on whether that was similar to Kovalchuk’s challenges in 2018-19:
Could be, I don’t know. I’m going to find out on my own this year. I can listen to people. You can see some real good things and you can see some things you’d like to work on. I’m going to give him a chance to work on those things and we’ll try and help him. If he can and he can be effective on the power play and provide us with some offense, I think this team needs that, but not at the expense of giving up two or three a night. I’m not accusing him of that by any means. But- [Reporter: Just the general concept.] General concept, yep


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