"Every time I play in Canada, I always play better," said Gonchar, who will begin looking for a home and a school for his children in Ottawa next week. "It's another reason that I wanted to sign with them. Ottawa was one of the first teams to call, and it meant to me that they were really serious because they were approaching me right from the first minute. So that's why I signed with them."

Gonchar also has one other serious piece of motivation. The Winter Olympics are coming the Russia for the first time in four years and he dearly wants to represent his country at those Sochi 2014 Games.

"We've never had a Winter Olympics in the history of our country," said Gonchar, a member of four previous Russian Olympic teams. "So the long-term goal is to participate in that Olympics."

Ha komolyan gondolja, akkor kiváló motiváció. Ebben az esetben Murraytől is jó húzás lehet.