Wheat Kings claim Russian defender off waivers
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The Brandon Wheat Kings swapped import defencemen on Thursday, but didn’t have to make a trade to do it.
Czech defender Adam Hlinsky, 19, is heading home as he deals with a leg injury he picked up in the second game of the season on Sept. 27. He hasn’t played since, although he has done some skating.
He’ll be replaced by Russian blue-liner Daniil Skvortsov, a six-foot-four, 200-pound defenceman who had been playing with the Ontario Hockey League’s Guelph Storm but was put on waivers. In six games this season, he had an assist, and was a healthy scratch in the team’s last seven games
Last season, the product of Kaluga, Russia, posted five goals and 13 assists in 59 games. He was selected by Guelph 27th overall in the first round of the 2024 Canadian Hockey League’s import draft.
While CHL teams can only dress three imports, Brandon currently holds the rights to four.
Hlinsky hasn’t been released by the club, which also has Czech goalie Filip Ruzicka and now Skvortsov in the lineup. In addition, the Wheat Kings drafted 17-year-old defencemen Samu Alalauri of Finland, but since he hasn’t signed yet, his rights are currently sitting on a separate import list.
All three Russians who played with Brandon in the last decade were also defencemen.
Andrei Malyavin spent two seasons with the club from 2022 to 2024, Ivan Provorov was the league’s top defender in the second of his two seasons between 2014 and 2016, and Dmitry Osipov spent the back half of the 2016-17 season with the club after being acquired in a trade.
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