Report: Former superstar intends on making NHL return.

It appears that despite officially retiring from the NHL, former superstar Ilya Kovalchuk is planning on making a comeback to the big league. According to a report out of Finland, Kovy is targeting a return to North America for the 2016-17 season. He called it an NHL career with $77 million left on his contract with the New Jersey Devils in 2013. Although he signed retirement papers, Kovalchuk never really retired. He'll enter his fourth and apparently final season with SKA Saint Petersburg of the KHL next year. However, his return to the NHL will prove to be tricky business. All 30 teams will have to approve his return, which may be a decision organizations would be reluctant to make. The Devils, who some believe coaxed Kovalchuk to leave the NHL, were able to duck monumental salary commitments through 2025 as a result of his pseudo retirement. The NHL penalized the Devils for trying to circumvent the NHL salary cap with Kovalchuk's original contract. As a result, the Devils surrendered $3 million, a third round draft choice in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft and one future first round draft choice within the next four seasons. The Devils decided to use their first round draft pick in the 2011 and 2012 NHL Entry Drafts, and were to surrender their first round pick in 2014. On March 6, 2014, however, the NHL announced they would forgive part of the $3 million fine and grant the Devils the 30th pick in the first round of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft. The reason for his exodus from the NHL was simple. Kovalchuk claimed that he desired to return home to Russia along with his family, though it is speculated that money had quite an influence as well, due to the higher total salary Kovalchuk will receive in Russia via the far lower Russian tax rate compared to the U.S. However, with the crash of the Russian ruble in December 2014, however, that no longer remains the case, and Kovalchuk's tax-effected NHL salary would be greater than his KHL proceeds. Despite whatever you may think of the guy, he is an incredible talent.Drafted first overall in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft by the Atlanta Thrashers and was nominated for the Calder Memorial Trophy as league rookie-of-the-year. He is a three-time NHL All-Star and won the Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy as the league's leading goal-scorer in 2004 in a three-way tie with Jarome Iginla and Rick Nash. Kovalchuk has played for Russia in the IIHF World U18 Championship, World Junior Championship, World Championship, World Cup and Winter Olympics, and was highlighted by back-to-back gold medals in the 2008 and 2009 World Championship. Kovalchuk tallied 417 goals and 816 points in 816 games in total in the NHL and is the fifth highest scoring Russian in NHL history. What do you think of Kovalchuk making a comeback? Should it happen, where should he sign?