Trending: Yegor Afanasyev Expected To Sign With Sharks For 2025-26 Season

Because the postseason strikes alongside, it appears as if the San Jose Sharks are specializing in getting a few of their very own issues performed this offseason as they appear to enhance on what was a tough 2024-25 marketing campaign. In a recent report, it appears as if they are going to be signing Yegor Afanasyev for the 2025-26 season.

Afanasyev, who’s 24 years previous, was acquired from the Nashville Predators in June of 2024, however signed within the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) after changing into a restricted free agent (RFA). This season with CSKA Moskva, he scored seven targets and added 14 assists for 21 factors by means of 53 video games.

Afanasyev was drafted within the second spherical of the 2019 NHL Entry Draft by the Predators at forty fifth general after a robust exhibiting in the US Hockey League (USHL) with the Muskegon Lumberjacks, the place he had 62 factors in 58 video games.

For the 2019-20 season, he joined the Windsor Spitfires within the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), the place he scored 31 targets and added 36 assists for 67 factors by means of 62 video games. He made the soar to the skilled degree within the 2021-22 season.

Via 19 video games within the NHL over two seasons, he has one aim. Via 187 video games within the American Hockey League (AHL), he scored 52 targets and added 61 assists for 113 factors, which comes out to a 0.60 points-per-game common.

There are no particulars on what a contract appears like for subsequent season, but when the report is correct, particulars ought to come out on his new contract quickly.

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