The Arizona Coyotes have taken on another reclamation project, adding big Russian winger Sergei Plotnikov in a trade with the Pittsburgh Penguins, a source told ESPN.com.
The Penguins will receive 24-year-old German winger Matthias Plachta, who is playing for Springfield of the AHL, and a conditional seventh round draft pick, sources tell ESPN.
Plotnikov, 25, was signed as a free agent last summer after spending six years in the Kontinental Hockey League, and the hope was he might fit playing on the wing with countryman Evgeni Malkin for the Penguins.