The bilateral agreement is with a two-year horizon.
Kotkov is a graduate of the CSKA Hockey School. In the 2016/17 season, he played 20 matches in the JHL for the “Red Army”, and also played for the Russian youth national team at the World Challenge Cup, where he has taken third place.
For the next four years, Vladislav performed in North America. In the Major Junior League of Quebec, he played in 208 matches, scoring 180 (87+93) points. He also played two games as a member of the San Jose Sharks farm club playing in the American Hockey League.
Vladislav is not the first hockey player who returned to CSKA from North America this season. Earlier, Gagarin Cup winners and Olympic champions Mikhail Grigorenko and Nikita Nesterov signed contracts with the club. In addition, two hockey players born in 2001, Malik Alishlalov and Matvey Guskov, returned to the club last year.
