Welcome to Labor day weekend. Not too much going on, but Evgeni Malkin and Max Talbot have reunited in Russia and that’s always a good thing.
Last week Talbot and Yaroslavl Lokomotiv mutually agreed to terminate their contract and Talbot quickly signed with Avangard Omsk. This will be Talbot’s third season in the KHL, he spent the previous two seasons in Yaroslavl, but his stats in 2017-18 fell 17 points (and in 17 less games) from a more successful 2016-17 that saw him score 15 goals and 21 assists in his first campaign in Russia.