The Colorado Avalanche Hockey Club announced today the team has claimed defenseman Ilya Solovyov off waivers from the Calgary Flames.<\/p>\n
Solovyov, 25, played the majority of his 2024-25 season for the American Hockey League\u2019s Calgary Wranglers and registered 28 points (6g\/22a), sharing the team-lead in goals among blueliners and ranking fourth in points in that criteria. He also suited up in five games for the Flames last season and chipped in one assist.<\/p>\n
A native of Mogilev, Belarus, Solovyov has spent the last four seasons (2021-22 to 2024-25) in the Flames\u2019 organization and recorded 69 points (18g\/51a) over 229 AHL games as well as four points (0g\/4a) over 15 NHL contests. The blueliner made his NHL debut on Oct. 26, 2023 vs. St. Louis and notched his first career NHL point on Dec. 5, 2023 vs. Minnesota.<\/p>\n
The 6-foot-3, 209-pound defenseman played professionally for the KHL\u2019s Minsk Dynamo in 2020-21 and suited up for the OHL\u2019s Saginaw Spirit in 2019-20. Prior to his first experience in North America, Solovyov competed in various Belarus pro and junior leagues over the 2016-17 and 2018-19 campaigns.<\/p>\n
On an international stage, Solovyov has represented Belarus at the 2021 IIHF World Championship as well as the 2018 under-18 World Championship. He was selected by the Flames in the seventh round (205th overall) in the 2020 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colorado Avalanche Hockey Club announced today the team has claimed defenseman Ilya Solovyov off waivers from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-200228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}