Dutch-Canadian
winger Daniel Sprong, 28, has signed a one-year contract with CSKA
Moscow, the KHL club announced on Wednesday.
Born
in the Netherlands, Sprong has lived and played hockey in North
America since the age of eight. This is his first professional
contract to play hockey in Europe.
Sprong
played junior hockey for the QMJHL’s
Charlottetown Islanders and was selected in the second round, 46th
overall, by the Pittsburgh
Penguins in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft.
Sprong
made the Penguins out of training camp as an 18-year-old but, after
scoring two goals in 18 games was sent back to junior. Between 2015
and 2025, he recorded 166 points and 68 penalty minutes in 374 NHL
regular season games with the Penguins, Anaheim
Ducks, Washington
Capitals, Seattle
Kraken, Detroit
Red Wings, Vancouver
Canucks and New
Jersey Devils. He also had three points in 14 playoff games with
Washington, Seattle and New Jersey.
The
2023-24 season was chaotic for Sprong, who started in Vancouver
before being traded back to Seattle, getting sent down to the AHL
for 19 games before being traded to New Jersey at the deadline.
Goalie Spencer Martin Signs In KHL
Canadian goaltender Spencer Martin, 30, has signed a two-year
contract with CSKA Moscow, the KHL club announced on Wednesday.
CSKA,
colloquially known in North America as the Red Army team, is a
perennial powerhouse in Russia but last season finished fifth in the
KHL’s Western Conference and was eliminated in the first round of
the playoffs.
The
club has had a busy off-season trying to improve its roster. In
addition to Sprong, the
team has also acquired Nikolai
Kovalenko, Rhett Gardiner, Denis
Zerov and goaltender Spencer
Martin this month, with Egor
Sokolov being signed and traded away in the process. In addition,
it has under contract for 2025-26 ex-NHLers Denis Guryanov, Nikita
Nesterov, Nikita Okhotyuk and Vladislav Kamenev.
Photo © Bob Frid-Imagn Images.
American-born Russian winger Nikolai Kovalenko, 25, has signed a
two-year contract with CSKA Moscow, the KHL
club announced on social media on Saturday.
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