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    Carter Brooks
    Carter Brooks
    Jan 1, 2024, 20:30

    Former Winnipeg Jets goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin has signed a one-year contract to play goal in the KHL.

    Former Winnipeg Jets goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin has signed a one-year contract to play goal in the KHL.

    Photo by Jerry Lai/USA Today - 50-Year-Old Nikolai Khabibulin Signs in KHL

    Former Winnipeg Jets backstop Nikolai Khabibulin is not quite done with his playing career. 

    This past week, the Russian Kontinental Hockey League's Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod announced that the team's goaltending coach has transitioned to the active roster. 

    The soon-to-be 51-year-old is now listed as Torpedo's third goaltender, behind Adam Huska and Ivan Kulbakov. 

    Whether or not the 'Bulin Wall' will make any starts is still up in the air. 

    Drafted 204th overall by Winnipeg back in 1992, Khabibulin spent 18 years in the NHL, ultimately winning the Stanley Cup in 2004 with the Tampa Bay Lightning, becoming the first Russian goaltender to do so. 

    He went 333-334-97 in 799 NHL games, posting a 2.72 goals against average, a .907 save percentage and 46 shutouts along the way. He officially retired this past decade, but has remained in the game as a goaltending coach/consultant for Russia's national team and world junior clubs.

    Khabibulin last suited up in a professional game back on November 16, 2013 with the Chicago Blackhawks.

    Much like that of the former Jet, fellow KHL club Spartak Moscow made headlines last month when the club signed former Atlanta Thrashers forward Ilya Kovalchuk, who is a youthful 40 years old, as compared to Khabibulin.