Ice hockey: the main stories of 09.09.2026

Spartak have tied down the man who has played more KHL games than anyone, with forward Sergei Lukyantsev signing a fresh deal announced on the club's website and confirmed by two outlets. The timing matters: Spartak terminated Yevgeny Svechnikov's contract on health grounds only a day earlier, so the squad needed continuity rather than another gap. One outlet, Sila Sporta, puts a second Spartak renewal — Ivan Ryabov's — at around 8 million roubles a season, though that figure rests on a single report. Moscow's champions of the early-season derby now go into the campaign with their forward group broadly intact.

Traktor were without head coach Scott Gordon in Kazan, the Chelyabinsk club's press service confirming he could not travel on health grounds, and the side lost 1-2 to Ak Bars; stand-in Dmitry Chernykh said the chances to level came late and went begging. Dynamo Moscow took their first points of the season, beating Admiral 2-1 after a shootout, which follows the 1-2 defeat to Avtomobilist and the 3-5 loss to SKA that prompted former defenceman Nikita Shchitov to suggest, by all accounts on his own reading rather than any club briefing, that Leonid Tambiev's position could come under review. In the NHL, Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman reports that Anaheim will place Chris Kreider on waivers to terminate his contract, a cap move agreed with the player and so far carried by one source.

• Andre Pronovost, four-time Stanley Cup winner with Montreal, has died at 90, the Canadiens announced.
• One outlet reports Edmonton have signed Alex Formenton for one year at $850,000.
• Aleksander Barkov on Sergei Bobrovsky's departure after seven seasons and two Cups: "there are no others like him".
• Connor McDavid, asked about Americans leaving Canadian clubs after the Tkachuk and Hughes moves, said he does not know whether it is the country or the chance to win.
• Salavat Yulaev general director Rinat Bashirov said Yevgeny Kuznetsov was not always ready to play at his level, but that keeping him would have been welcome.
• Nikita Gusev remains a free agent three months on; ex-coach Dmitry Ryabykin believes he is waiting on a big-city club.
• Defenceman Konstantin Luchevnikov on leaving Kazan after ten years for Admiral; goalkeeper Nikita Boyarkin joined the same club after Barys told him not to return.
• Alex DeBrincat called Dylan Larkin's trade request a bad situation; Winnipeg captain Adam Lowry said Connor Hellebuyck's request will not split the room.
• Brady Tkachuk on his first visit to Ottawa with Florida: any reception will do.
• Avangard goalkeeper Nikita Serebryakov recalled being photographed with Ovechkin as a boy before facing him at the Match of the Year.
• Elsewhere in the KHL: CSKA beat Torpedo 3-0, SKA edged Lada 2-1 in overtime, and Barys won 8-6 against Salavat Yulaev.