"Forever A Flawed Gem"  That line comes out of the 2008-09
McKeen’s Hockey Yearbook. It’s the last line in a description of
Ed Jovanovski, the ex-Canucks defenseman. It's also a remarkably
succinct summary that could be applied to whole groups of
players across the National Hockey League. Ilya Kovalchuk is
perhaps the best player in that group, a pure-offense player of
incredible quality, but not exactly a well-rounded performer.  I
remember watching a lot of Canucks games when Ed Jovanovski was
still in Vancouver. This was Burke's team, a cast which
experienced change but was anchored around the core players:
Bertuzzi-Morrison-Naslund up front, Jovanovski and Ohlund on the
back end, and Dan Cloutier in net. The Sedins were there too,
but were still too young to have a major impact.  My dad (a
Canucks fan) and I had a recurring discussion about Jovanovski
vs. Ohlund - which was the better player, if it came down to
making a choice between the two, which would you keep, that sort
of thing. We both agreed that