Williamsville’s Andrew Poturalski joins KHL’s Avangard Omsk

Andrew Poturalski will head to Russia for his 11th season of playing professional hockey.

Avangard Omsk of the Kontinental Hockey League announced Sunday that Poturalski, a 2012 Nichols School graduate from Williamsville, will join the team for the 2025-26 season.

According to multiple reports, he has signed a one-year contract with Avangard Omsk, which is coached by former Tampa Bay Lightning and Ottawa Senators head coach Guy Boucher.

San Jose Sharks center Andrew Poturalski, right, during a game against the Montreal Canadiens in San Jose, Calif., Tuesday, Feb.

4, 2025.

Poturalski, a center who also played for the Buffalo Jr.

Sabres, completed his 10th season in professional hockey by scoring a career-best 30 goals and 73 points in 2024-25 for the San Jose Barracuda, the San Jose Sharks' American Hockey League farm team.

Poturalski led the AHL in scoring, and was the AHLs MVP.

However, he sustained a lower-body injury in late March and did not play in the AHL's Calder Cup playoffs.

Colorado eliminated the Barracuda 3-1 in a Pacific Division semifinal.

Poturalski, 31, was originally on a two-year contract with the San Jose Sharks that paid him $475,000 in the AHL and $800,000 in the NHL.

The second half of that deal for the 2025-26 season was terminated.

Poturalski, though, has three assists in only nine NHL games in his career: Three with San Jose in 2024-25, two with Seattle in 2023-24 and four with Carolina in 2016-17 and 2021-22.

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