As it turns out, if you play too well during your first taste of the KHL while on loan at a bottom-half team in the league, you get to return to the big club.
Philadelphia Flyers goaltender prospect Yegor Zavragin has been rewarded for his near-perfect performances through the start of the 2024-25 KHL season while on loan at HC Sochi, and has been recalled from that loan by SKA St. Petersburg.