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Ex-NHL hockey player sentenced in sex assault case made 'mistake,' says his new team's GM

Four months after being fired amid the fallout of a sex assault case, a former NHL hockey player from Michigan has been hired to another Kontinental Hockey League team.

Reid Boucher, 28, of the Okemos area, will play for the Russian team Avangard Omsk on a one-year contract, the team announced Saturday.