Ilya Karpukhin is a SKA player!

SKA Hockey Club and Traktor Chelyabinsk have agreed on a trade.

Defenseman Ilya Karpukhin is moving to SKA, with fellow defenseman Arseniy Koromyslov and forward Vasily Glotov transferring to Traktor.

SKA have also received the KHL rights to goalkeeper Ruslan Khazheyev.

HC SKA thanks Arseniy and Vasily for their efforts with our organisation, while welcoming Ilya to Saint Petersburg!

Factfile:

Ilya Karpukhin is a defenseman who was born on 13 July 1998 in Chelyabinsk, Russia. He progressed through the Traktor system in his home city.

This is his first transfer away from Traktor. With Traktor's youth team Belye Medvedi Ilya reached the semi-finals of the MHL Kharlamov Cup, before making his KHL debut in the 2018/2019 campaign. Across his six and a half seasons with Traktor, Ilya twice won KHL bronze (2022, 2024) and a bronze medal of the Russian Championship in 2022.

On the international scene, he has won the Channel One Cup with the Russian national team in 2023 and 2024, the Liga Stavok Big National Team Tour in the same years and the Qazaqstan Hockey Open in 2024.