the whole league has been in a youth movement for some time, unless you are the calgary flames.
Gomez, for all of his baggage, is a natural talent like Kovalev. Some skills go outside of the objectives of the game. Kovalev has the stick, gomez has his feet. His ability to get going north south with the puck is something that I would assume PK has to love watching and learning from.
(regardless of what happens once gomez gets where he's trying to go.)