Detroit — The odds are slim, but could Pavel Datsyuk return to the NHL?
Datstyuk’s agent, Dan Milstein, told Russia’s Match TV on Wednesday that Datsyuk could return to the NHL — and, possibly, the Red Wings, if they want him — next season.
“I can tell you Pavel is not ready to quit hockey in (the) next few years,” Milstein told the television network. “So again, it’s up to him, going to America or playing in KHL.”
Datsyuk, 40, spent his entire 14-year NHL career with the Red Wings. He left the Wings to play in Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League and to be closer to his daughter in June 2016, but his three-year contract with SKA St.