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Nikishin "very happy to be with the team" after signing a one-year contract. nsjonline.com/article/2026/1…

Hurricanes re-sign Nikishin to 1-year deal

RALEIGH — The stalemate between the Hurricanes and defenseman Alexander Nikishin is over. The 25-year-old signed a one-year deal worth $3 million Sunday to end a monthslong saga that saw him miss the...

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Brind'Amour on the conversation he had with Nikishin upon his return. "Just welcome back. Say OK, you had an extra month off than everyone else, now you've got to catch up. The other stuff is what it is, and now we've got to just move forward. He's got to get ramped up, and he will."
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Brind'Amour said Jankowski will be available tonight. On Hall, who left the skate early, Brind'Amour said, "Maybe just a little something come up, but I would assume he's all right."
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Nikishin said there are no hard feelings about the contract negotiations. "It's all good."
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Nikishin on being a new dad: “It’s very interesting, and it’s not that easy.”
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Nikishin said he's ready to play but he's "got to do the program, skating and practicing, and hopefully he's going to play soon."
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Nikishin, through Svechnikov as a translator, said he "is very happy to be with the team."
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"It's kind of been hard, obviously, overall, being without the team, being in America (and) just waiting, (not) knowing what's going to happen. And obviously it was hard, but now it's all good."
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Jankowski is ready to go tonight, he says.
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Cory Lavalette retweeted
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Taylor Hall left the skate about five minutes in and has not returned. As a result, Mark Jankowski is taking PP2 reps again. PP1: Aho, Blake, Ehlers, and Svechnikov with Gostisbehere PP2: Jankowski, Jarvis, Kotkaniemi, and Stankoven, with Miller
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Jankowski is working with PP2. We’ll see if that means he could go tonight.
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Nikishin is on the ice for morning skate; Miller just went up to him with a big smile and patted him on the back a few times. Jankowski, Hall also on the ice; Kochetkov in the starter’s crease.
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Taylor Hall has been activated off IR and Skyler Brind'Amour has been reassigned to AHL Chicago.
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Dakota@KotaSeitzOct 26
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Curious, figure not but were the boys in any hometown remix gear?
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Martinook and Jarvis alternated in the middle, so may just be a righty-lefty thing depending on the faceoff dot.
Cory Lavalette
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Line rushes — some wrinkles Carrier-Aho-Svechnikov Ehlers-Stankoven-Blake Hall-Jarvis-Martinook Robinson-Kotkaniemi-Brind'Amour Kochetkov in the starter's crease coming off a shutout
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Jokingly asked Kochetkov is he asked for a percentage of Nikishin’s deal, since Nikishin switched to Kochetkov’s agent. “I asked.”
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Kochetkov on Nikishin signing: “What I can say about this situation is he's my friend, right? I'm very happy he’s back, and this is probably good for everybody, for (the) team for sure, for him I hope too.”
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Aho on Nikishin: “We all understand that part. And yeah, it's hockey, but it's also business. And obviously we understand it probably wasn't the easiest negotiations, by any means, to say the least. But from our perspective, we're just happy to have him back and hopefully see him here tomorrow.”
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PR staff told me they didn’t know when Nikishin would get to Raleigh.
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