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Pavel Datsyuk (Photo: Geoff Burke, USA TODAY Sports)
MOSCOW – Pavel Datysuk has signed up for the club in his hometown, the Kontinental Hockey League, putting an end to rumors of a possible return to the NHL.
The 40-year-old center signed a one-year contract with Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg, the successor to the team where he began his professional career in 1996-97.
He published a photo of himself in social media wearing the uniform of Avtomobilist and bearing the legend "Yekaterinburg beloved".
Datysuk left the NHL in 2016 to return to Russia with SKA St. Petersburg after 953 games for the Detroit Red Wings. He won an Olympic gold medal last year with the Russian Olympic athletes, after the NHL did not allow his players to participate.
He left SKA last month after three seasons in the KHL.
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