Defender of St. Petersburg SKA Alexander Nikishin will not take part in the opening match of the new FONBET KHL Championship season due to injury, team head coach Roman Rotenberg said.
— Today the situation is such that our captain Nikishin was injured. He will not play the opening match of the season. We have two captains – Evgeny Kuznetsov and Vasily Glotov. “We will solve this problem more thoroughly,” a correspondent reports, as Rotenberg said.
In the last Gagarin Cup, SKA lost to Avtomobilist in the second round (1-4). Nikishin was injured in the fifth game of the first round of the playoffs against Torpedo (4-1). The hockey player did not play a single game in the series with Avtomobilist. In the regular season, Nikishin scored 56 points (17+39) in 67 games.
The new season of the FONBET Kontinental Hockey League starts on September 3. SKA will open the championship on September 5 with an away match against the Gagarin Cup winner Magnitogorsk Metallurg.
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