Russian defenseman Nikolai Goldobin, 29, has been claimed off KHL waivers
by SKA St. Petersburg, the KHL website announced on Monday. He had
been waived by Spartak Moscow, the club for which he’d played the
past two seasons.
Born in
Moscow, Goldobin went overseas at age 16 to play junior hockey for
the OHL’s Sarnia Sting. He became a first-round pick of the San
Jose Sharks in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft, selected 27th
overall.
Goldobin
spent most of the 2014-15 season playing in Finland for HIFK Helsinki
before signing with the Sharks late in the season and moving to the
AHL’s San Jose Barracuda.
Between
2015 and 2019, Goldobin played 125 NHL games for the Sharks and
Vancouver Canucks, recording
46 points and 24 penalty minutes. In February 2017, he was traded
from San Jose to Vancouver for Danish winger Jannik Hansen.
Ex-Canuck Nikita Tryamkin Signs 3-Year Contract Extension In KHL
Russian defenseman Nikita Tryamkin, 30, has signed a three-year
contract extension with Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg that will run
through the end of the 2027-28 season, the
KHL club announced recently.
Goldobin
has spent the past five seasons in the KHL
playing for CSKA Moscow, Metallurg Magnitogorsk and Spartak,
recording 277 points in 339 regular-season and playoff games.
A perennial powerhouse in the KHL, last season SKA
finished a disappointing seventh in the Western Conference and was
eliminated in the first round of the playoffs despite a star-studded
lineup that included Ivan Demidov, Alexander Nikishin, Mikhail
Grigorenko, Evgeny
Kuznetsov, Arseni Gritsyuk, Nikita
Zaitsev and Tony
DeAngelo.
Heading into 2025-26, only Zaitsev remains from that group. The
team has replaced coach Roman Rotenberg with Igor
Larionov and added center Igor Larionov
Jr. and North Americans Rocco
Grimaldi Trevor Murphy, Brennan
Menell and Joey Blandisi, who have some NHL experience.
Alexander Burmistrov & Adam Clendening Latest To Sign With Chinese KHL Team
Ever since a major rebranding a week ago, the
Shanghai Dragons have hired a high-profile head coach and signed 14
new players, including several ex-NHLers. On Saturday, five new
signings were announced,
including Russian center Alexander Burmistrov and the
re-signing of American defenseman Adam
Clendening.
Rocco Grimaldi Will Play For Igor Larionov In KHL
American forward Rocco Grimaldi, 32, has signed a two-year contract
with SKA St. Petersburg, the KHL announced on Wednesday.
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