As learned on Tuesday SKA will make an exchange withSochi “, as a result of which one of the best scorers of the St. Petersburg club will go to the southerners Marat Khusnutdinov .
Last season, center forward Khusnutdinov scored 41 points (11 goals + 30 assists) in 63 games of the KHL regular season with a utility indicator of “+15” and recorded 7 points (1 +6) in 16 playoff games. He was one of SKA’s top six scorers. This season, the 21-year-old forward did not score a point in six matches and then was benched.
Khusnutdinov will move to Sochi through a trade, not a loan. His contract with SKA runs until April 30, 2024. The forward could continue his career in 2024 with Minnesota, who selected him 37th overall in the 2020 draft.
In exchange, SKA receives a 31-year-old Croatian striker Bornu Rendulic , who scored 15 points (9+6) in 16 regular season games this season. His contract also expires in 2024.
Rendulic will become SKA’s fourth foreign player, also joining striker Alexander Galchenyuk (USA), injured striker Brendan Laipsik (Canada) and goalkeeper Johan Mattsson (Sweden). Currently in the KHL there is a limit of three foreign players per club. Laipsik applied for Russian citizenship.
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