{"id":632748,"date":"2026-04-26T21:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/632748\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T21:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:06:09","slug":"canadiens-alexander-zharovsky-remaining-in-khl-for-2026-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/632748\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadiens&#8217; Alexander Zharovsky Remaining In KHL For 2026-27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadiens\u2019 young lineup still has a few notable pieces on the way. They\u2019ll have to wait at least one more season to see one of them, though. Winger\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/690135\/alexander-zharovsky\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Alexander Zharovsky<\/a>, last year\u2019s 34th overall pick, confirmed Sunday that he\u2019s remaining with Salavat Yulaev Ufa in the Kontinental Hockey League to honor the final season of his contract in Russia (via <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mndamico\/status\/2048435845049340007?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Marco D\u2019Amico of RG<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Zharovsky already looks like one of the steals of the 2025 class. Touted as a late-first-round talent by a few, most still expected him to be available with the Habs\u2019 pick at 34.<\/p>\n<p>He responded with a spectacular rookie season in the KHL this year after playing out his draft season in Russia\u2019s junior circuit. Zharovsky was a three-time Rookie of the Month and was named to the league\u2019s All-Star Game. With 16 goals and 42 points in 59 games, Zharovsky ranked third on Salavat in scoring and was second in points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Even with some big-time names graduating over the last two seasons, the Habs still have a top-10 prospect pool in the league. Zharovsky\u2019s standout 2025-26 campaign was enough to elevate him to #3 in the organization, per <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7141035\/2026\/04\/01\/montreal-canadiens-nhl-prospect-rankings-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Athletic\u2019s Scott Wheeler<\/a> \u2013 ahead of stagnating 2023 fifth overall pick\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/reinbda01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-26_hr\">David Reinbacher<\/a> \u2013 and have him well-positioned to be a top-six contributor for Montreal in a couple of years\u2019 time.<\/p>\n<p>But unlike some high-profile Russian names over the past couple of years, it doesn\u2019t appear there will be an early exit from Zharovsky\u2019s overseas contractual obligations. Since the NHL doesn\u2019t have a transfer agreement with the KHL, teams can\u2019t sign their Russian prospects while they\u2019re actively under contract with KHL clubs. Doing so requires the player and club to agree to terminate the deal \u2013 often at great cost to the player if not agreed to mutually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadiens\u2019 young lineup still has a few notable pieces on the way. They\u2019ll have to wait at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[306424,64,63,5790,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-632748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-alexander-zharovsky","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-montreal-canadiens","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}