Ryabykin reaches 1,000 games

Thursday’s game in Chelyabinsk against Avtomobilist was a significant milestone for Traktor defenseman Dmitry Ryabykin – his 1,000th appearance in top-level championships.

In a long and distinguished career, Ryabykin has also donned the jerseys of Dynamo Moscow, SKA Saint Petersburg and Avangard Omsk, and in reaching the 1,000 mark he joins a very exclusive and illustrious group of players: Andrei Subbotin, Vitaly Proshkin, Alexei Troshchinsky and Alexei Kalyuzhny.

The Kontinental Hockey League congratulates Dmitry Ryabykin on this remarkable achievement.