Reid Boucher, a former NHL player, was fired from his Kontinental Hockey League team last week following his sentencing in a Michigan sexual assault case from a 2011 incident involving a 12-year-old when he was 17.
Boucher’s contract with the Russian team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl was terminated on Feb. 18, club press officer Alexander Sakhanov confirmed in an email.
The decision was made “according to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation,” the team said in a Feb. 18 announcement on the English translation version of its website.
Boucher, 28, of the Okemos area, previously had stints with the New Jersey Devils, the Nashville Predators and the Vancouver Canucks.