MOSCOW (Reuters) - Six-time NHL All Star Sergei Fedorov has signed a two-year contract with Metallurg Magnitogorsk, the Russian club said.
Fedorov, 39, was negotiating with several NHL teams but decided to return to Russia, ending an 18-year career which included winning three Stanley Cups with the Detroit Red Wings and capturing the Hart Trophy as the league MVP in 1994.
He joined the Washington Capitals from Columbus in February 2008, helping them to the Stanley Cup playoffs for the past two seasons. They lost to the eventual champions Pittsburgh Penguins in the Eastern Conference semi-finals this year.
The lanky center also played for Russia at last year's world championship, where they beat arch-rivals Canada in a dramatic final to take the gold and end a 15-year title drought.
At Metallurg, Fedorov will be reunited with his younger brother Fedor Fedorov, who signed a two-year deal with the club from the Urals this year.
Fedorov became the latest high-profile player to leave the NHL and join the Continental Hockey League (KHL), which was formed last year with teams from Russia and its former Soviet neighbors, Belarus, Latvia and Kazakhstan.
Fellow Russian Viktor Kozlov, Fedorov's team mate at Washington, joined KHL champions Salavat Yulaev Ufa last month.
(Reporting by Gennady Fyodorov; Editing by Nick Mulvenney)
