Double Olympic champion and former hockey playerSpartak » Boris Mairerov congratulated the attacker Ilya Kovalchuk who scored a goal in the first match after returning to the Moscow club.
On Sunday, Spartak defeated Kunlun in the KHL regular season home match with a score of 5:2. For Kovalchuk, this meeting was the first after his return to the KHL. The 40-year-old forward has not played professional hockey since winning the Gagarin Cup with Avangard as captain in April 2021.
“Oh, what a great guy Kovalchuk is! I scored the puck, well done. God bless him,” Mayorov told .
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