Will Vasily Ponomarev sign with KHL team?

Photo by Jeanine Leech/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesPittsburgh Penguins impending free agent Vasily Ponomarev may have made a career choice to head back to the KHL. Twitter reports have him signing with Avangard, although definitive and a formal filing of the completed contract has not happened as of yet.

It’s not stopping the excitement from Avangard’s perspective, who traded for Ponomarev’s KHL rights earlier today. The team also posted this to twitter:

Handy google translation: “Let’s see our newcomer, forward Vasily Ponomarev, in action Winner of the World Challenge Cup (2019), the Hlinka / Gretzky Cup (2019) and the Calder Cup (2022). He has been called up to the junior team more than…