As learned, onward Ilya Kovalchuk will play in the second line “Spartacus” With Maxim Tsyplakov And Andrei Loktionov during Sunday’s Fonbet KHL Championship match with Kunlun Red Star .
This will be the forward’s first game after returning to the KHL.
Earlier, in an interview with , Chairman of the Board of Directors of Spartak Alexander Yakushev said that Kovalchuk will return to the KHL on December 24 in the match against Kunlun. The match will take place on Sunday at 14:00 Moscow time at the Luzhniki sports complex.
According to , Kovalchuk will play on the second line with Loktionov and Tsyplakov, with whom he conducted several training sessions.
In December, the hockey player signed a contract with Spartak until the end of the season. The last time the 40-year-old forward took the ice in KHL games was in April 2021, when he won the Gagarin Cup with Avangard as captain.
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Source : MatchTV
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