This was announced by the director of the club Vladimir Krechin. "There will be Andrey Kostitsyn – a player of the Belarusian national team and a man who spent seven seasons in the NHL. Chelyabinsk region. Chelyabinsk.

Traktor signed a contract with Andrey Kostitsyn

“There will be Andrey Kostitsyn, a player of the Belarusian national team and a man who spent seven seasons in the NHL. And he will come not for the duration of the lockout, but for the whole season. let go, then we will sign it, if not, then it will not work, alas," he said at an online conference.

Andrey Kostitsyn – Belarusian hockey player. The most productive Belarusian hockey player in the history of the NHL.

The older brother of hockey player Sergei Kostitsyn, plays for the Predators, and previously played with his brother in the Montreal Canadiens.

A pupil of the Novopolotsk children's and youth hockey school.

He has been playing for the Belarusian national team since 2002. Member of the world championships 2003, 2004 in the first division, 2005, 2006, 2008,2012 as part of the Belarusian national team.

As of the end of the 2010/11 season, he played 326 games in the NHL regular season, in which he scored 186 (87 + 99) points.

In February 2012, the Montreal Canadiens traded Andrei Kostitsyn to Nashville. Kostitsyn was compensated with a second-round pick and a conditional pick in the 2013 draft.