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Petr Prucha signs with KHL while Kyle Wellwood leaves Russia for the Blues

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James O’Brien

It’s almost as if the KHL traded away walking fat joke Kyle Wellwood for middling forward Petr Prucha, even if it’s a coincidence. Puck Daddy’s Dmitry Chesnokov reports that the KHL’s SKA St. Petersburg signed Prucha after he was waived by the Phoenix Coyotes while the St. Louis Blues are hoping Wellwood will clear waivers this afternoon so he can join the team.

SKA St. Petersburg seems like a clearing house for former NHL talent. Their current roster includes Maxim Afinogenov, Evgeny Artyukhin, Sergei Brylin, Petr Cajanek, Denis Grebeshkov, Vitaly Vishnevski, Alexei Yashin and Sergei Zubov. The team also previously employed Evgeni Nabokov. (They also have a guy named Denis Denisov on their team, which is pretty funny.)

Neither Prucha nor Wellwood are impact players, but both guys have their fair share of fans. Prucha only managed one assist in 11 games so far this season while Wellwood was averaging a little under nine minutes per game with eight points in 25 games for Atlant in the KHL.