Evander Kane will play hockey in Asia next season
Evander Kane better be packing a warm winter coat after officially inking his new KHL deal.
The 35-year-old power forward was expected to sign in Russia after his agent, Dan Milstein, told the DFO Insider podcast that Kane was taking his talents to the KHL. What wasn’t known was exactly which team he would be signing with, but that was revealed on Tuesday morning.
Kane has inked a contract with the KHL’s HC Sibir Novosibirsk, a team based in Southern Russia in Siberia.
šØš¦ Evander Kane is heading to Novosibirsk! pic.twitter.com/hfQTuzvpVG
— KHL (@khl_eng) November 10, 2026
It became clear over the summer that Kane’s time in the NHL was likely over. He was coming off a very disappointing season with the Vancouver Canucks and was starting to create controversy online, getting into beef with both Edmonton Oilers beat reporter Mark Spector and ex-NHL tough guy Kurtis Gabriel.
Kane had some good years with the Oilers, but injuries and a decline in play left him with no viable NHL options this season.
Evander Kane’s last NHL season came with the Vancouver Canucks (Ron Chenoy/Imagn Images)
His next destination is quite an interesting one, however, as Novosibirsk is about as remote a place as you could play professional hockey. The city is home to just over 1.6 million people and is the largest city in Siberia, though it’s a whopping 40-hour drive or 4.5-hour flight from Moscow.
Novosibirsk is about a six-hour drive from the Kazakhstan border, making it a much quicker drive than to Moscow. Kane’s new stomping grounds are also 720 kilometres from Russiaās border with China.
The temperature in Novosibirsk is on the cooler side, as the city averages a temperature of -20Ā°C at night during its coldest month of January, while July sees daytime temperatures average out to 20Ā°C.
The uniforms seem to reflect the cold weather in the region, as the team’s logo is a snowflake.
Evander Kane’s new KHL team has a snowflake for the logo. (SportsLogos.net)
This won’t be Kane’s first foray into the KHL. Back during the 2012-13 NHL lockout, the Vancouver native appeared in 12 games with Minsk Dynamo, where he put up a goal and two points in that span, while also amassing 47 penalty minutes.
It remains to be seen whether or not Kane can revive his career in Russia, but this may be the most remote place that he’s ever played in.