San Jose Sharks are allowing Nikolai Kovalenko and a group of other players to become unrestricted free agents.

Two days after signing with CSKA Moscow, Russian winger Egor Sokolov has been traded to Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod, the CSKA ...

Nikolai Kovalenko said his dream is to play in the NHL. On Thursday, when the Sharks met as a team for the final time this season, he was asked if he wants to stay with San Jose if he remains in ...

Nikolai Kovalenko’s brief but rocky tenure with the San Jose Sharks has come to an end.. The Sharks announced Monday that Kovalenko, along with a group of other pending restricted free agents ...

Nikolai Kovalenko (15) of the San Jose Sharks skates on the ice during their game against the Winnipeg Jets in the first period at SAP Center on December 17, 2024 in San Jose, California.

Kovalenko split last season with the Avs and Sharks, logging a combined 57 regular-season contests while tallying seven goals, 13 assists and 45 shots. Combining his age (25) and NHL experience, the ...

Nikolai Kovalenko, the Avalanche’s sixth-round draft pick in 2018 and the son of former Avs forward Andrei Kovalenko, signed a two-year entry-level contract Tuesday, the team announced. But t… ...

Nikolai Kovalenko (15) of the San Jose Sharks skates on the ice during their game against the Winnipeg Jets in the first period at SAP Center on December 17, 2024 in San Jose, California.

However, also going to the Sharks in the deal as incentive to allow the Avalanche to upgrade in net was winger Nikolai Kovalenko, a 2018 sixth-round pick out of the KHL who had finally made the ...

Instead, former sixth-round pick Nikolai Kovalenko could be in line to get a good audition in the early stages of the season. With Gabriel Landeskog due to miss the early part of the season ...

Nikolai Kovalenko is an American-born Russian professional ice hockey right wing for the San Jose Sharks in the NHL as of February 2025. Born on October 17, 1999, in Raleigh, ...

Nikolai Kovalenko was selected 171st overall by the Avalanche during the 2018 NHL draft in Dallas. (Photo by Jeff Vinnick/NHLI via Getty Images) Ryan Clark: You were born in North Carolina.