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Battalion's Guskov signs with CKSA Moscow of the KHL

It appears the North Bay Battalion has lost Minnesota Wild prospect Matvei Guskov. According to reports out of Russia, the KHL club CSKA Moscow has signed the 19-year-old Guskov to a three-year deal.
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It appears the North Bay Battalion has lost Minnesota Wild prospect Matvei Guskov. 

According to reports out of Russia, the KHL club CSKA Moscow has signed the 19-year-old Guskov to a three-year deal. 

See related: Family and patience are a virtue for Battalion's Guskov

In early December BayToday spoke to Guskov about this strange off-season.  

"It has been a pretty hard off-season for all of us," Guskov told BayToday last week via a recent Zoom Call.  

"We are just waiting for the upcoming season. Plans are always changing so we cannot know 100 per cent when it is going to start but we are hoping for good news."

Back in early June, the Battalion traded two third-round OHL Priority Selection picks, in 2021 and 2023, and a 15th-rounder in 2023, all of them conditional to the London Knights, for Russian import Guskov, a 19-year-old who scored 16 goals and earned 14 assists for 30 points with 48 penalty minutes in 62 games last season.

Guskov, who currently is living and training in Moscow, has played several times for the Russian national junior team, and in August 2020 he played for Russia's U20 team. 


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