2023-05-23 01:35:32
Forward Vitali Kravtsov has given up on the idea of carving out a place in the NHL, according to Russian media on Monday Championship.
Journalist Pavel Panyshev writes that Kravtsov would have initialed a two-year contract with the Traktor of Chelyabinsk, in the KHL.
This is the club for which he played from 2016 to 2021, all interspersed with a stint with the Hartford Wolf Pack, the Rangers’ school club.
The 23-year-old winger, selected 9th overall by the New York Rangers in 2018, finished the 2022-23 campaign as a member of the Vancouver Canucks.
Kravtsov came to British Columbia on Feb. 25 in exchange for fellow forward William Lockwood and a seventh pick in 2026.
After 28 games with the New Yorkers, punctuated by a harvest of six points (3-3), Kravtsov was limited to two points (1-1) in 16 games in Vancouver.
The 6-foot-3 athlete has 64 games on the Bettman circuit.
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