In the regular season match of the Continental Hockey League (KHL), Moscow “Spartak” defeated “Kunlun Red Star”, which became the first in the red-whites for Ilya Kovalchuk after his return to the club.
The match was played at the Luzhniki Arena in Moscow and ended with a score of 5:2. In addition to Kovalchuk, Michal Chaikovsky, Nikolai Goldobin, Andrei Loktionov and Egor Filin also scored among the winners. Jack Rodewald and Jiang Fu scored for the Chinese club.
Kovalchuk took to the ice in the second row of the team along with Maxim Tsyplakov and Andrei Loktionov. In the second period, the 40-year-old striker made a goal error. After losing the puck, Kunlun scored for the first time in the match, playing in the minority. At the end of the meeting, Kovalchuk threw the puck into the empty net.
Kovalchuk did not play for the last two years, but decided to continue his career to help Spartak, where he was a student. The forward, who also played for Russia’s top-level red-white senior team, went to the Atlanta Thrashers, who selected him with the first number in the National Draft at a young age. Hockey League (NHL).
In 2021, as part of Omsk Avangard, Kovalchuk became a three-time winner of the Gagarin Cup and decided to suspend his activities as a player. Kovalchuk played for Atlanta, New Jersey Devils, Washington Capitals and Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League.
Previously at Spartak said About Kovalchuk’s form.