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Nicolas Aube-Kubel's NHL career appears to be over.
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Nicolas Aube-Kubel's NHL career appears to be over.
The impressive National Hockey League career of veteran forward Nicolas Aube-Kubel appears to be over, at least for now.
Over the weekend there were rumblings that Aube-Kubel was looking at options regarding potentially playing overseas next season and now those rumblings have been officially confirmed. According to a report from Jeremy Garrett of Hockey News Hub, Aube-Kubel has now agreed to terms on a new contract with Dinamo Minsk, one of the premier teams in the Kontinental Hockey League.
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Aube-Kubel's news deal will run through May of 2027.
If this is indeed the last we have seen of Aube-Kubel in the NHL it marks the end of an impressive career, one in which Aube-Kubel overcame the odds to claim hockey's ultimate prize. Originally drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers in the second round (48th overall) of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft, Aube-Kubel would spend the first three seasons of his professional career in the American Hockey League. Aube0Kubel would earn a brief 9 game stint with the Flyers during the 2018-19 season but it wasn't until the 2019-20 season that he truly established himself on the roster.
Aube-Kubel has since appeared in a total of 310 regular season games where he had 32 goals and 50 assists for 82 career points, split between the Flyers, Colorado Avalanche , Toronto Maple Leafs , Washington Capitals , Buffalo Sabres , New York Rangers and Minnesota Wild .
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The crowning moment of his NHL career though would come during the 2021-22 season where, with the aforementioned Avalanche, he won a Stanley Cup championship and forever etched his name into hockey history.
Hopefully Aube-Kubel will have continued success in this next chapter of his career in the KHL.
