Evander Kane's New Team Has Emerged, Signs One-Year Contract
His agent made it clear last week that longtime feisty NHL forward Evander Kane would be signing in Russia for this season, but he didn't reveal which team. It has now been confirmed that Kane will be joining Sibir Novosibirsk on a one-year contract.
🇨🇦 Evander Kane is heading to Novosibirsk! https://t.co/hfQTuzvpVG
— KHL (@khl_eng) November 10, 2026
Kane will join another longtime former NHL player, Evgeny Kuznetsov, with the KHL club.
"Evander Kane decided to take his talents to Russia," his agent Dan Milstein said on the DFO Insider podcast last week.
Kane, 35, played last season in the NHL with his hometown Vancouver Canucks, recording just 13 goals—a career low for him in a full season—along with 31 points in 71 games. He registered 111 hits and had 92 penalty minutes.
Milstein indicated that there were a couple of nibbles from NHL teams in free agency this summer for the 35-year-old, but clearly there was no team offering anything substantial, forcing him to consider the KHL.
Kane has recorded nine 20-goal seasons in his 16 campaigns in the NHL, the most recent coming with the Edmonton Oilers in 2023-24. A couple of years earlier, in his first season in Edmonton, he led the Stanley Cup Playoffs in goals with 13 in 15 contests.
In 1,001 total career games, Kane has 339 goals, 648 points, 2,324 hits, 1,278 penalty minutes and 29 official fights.