Head coach of Spartak Alexei Jamnov said the former Moscow club striker Ilya Kovalchuk took a sabbatical.
Kovalchuk signed a contract with Spartak in December 2023 until the end of the 2023/24 season. The Olympic champion returned to the ice after a two-year break. This offseason, the forward became an unrestricted free agent. In May, Kovalchuk’s agent Alexander Chernykh told that his client had not yet announced his final retirement from hockey.
— Comment on the future of Ilya Kovalchuk.
— Ilya took a sabbatical. I think he must decide for himself what to do. He will definitely return to the sport. The question is in what capacity, “the correspondent reports, based on the words of the team’s head coach Zhamnov.
As a member of the Red and Whites, Kovalchuk played 25 games in the KHL regular season and playoffs, scoring four goals and providing four assists. He turned 41 in April.
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