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CALGARY — The Calgary Flames and Russian defenceman Nikita Nesterov have agreed to a one-year contract.
The deal is worth US$700,000, the NHL club said Friday in a statement.
The 27-year-old from Chelyabinsk scored seven goals and assisted on 16 in 53 KHL games last season with CSKA Moscow.
Nesterov, five foot 11 and 200 pounds, played 132 career NHL games with the Tampa Bay Lightning and Montreal Canadiens from 2014 to 2017.
He totalled nine goals and 24 assists, as well as a goal and six assists in 28 playoff games. The Lightning drafted him in the fifth round in 2011.
Nesterov was captain of the Russian team that won an Olympic gold medal in 2018 in Pyeongchang, South Korea. He was also named to that country’s World Cup squad in 2016.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 23, 2020.
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