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Coyotes lend Tikhonov to KHL

Last Updated: Saturday, November 28, 2009 | 7:34 PM ET

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Viktor Tikhonov, left, spent the first weeks of this season in the AHL after playing 61 games for Phoenix last season. (Gerry Broome/Associated Press)

The Phoenix Coyotes announced on Saturday that sophomore forward Viktor Tikhonov would be loaned to Russia's KHL, the Continental Hockey League.

Tikhonov, 21, will play for CSKA Moscow in the KHL for the remainder of this season.

The native of Riga, Latvia, had eight goals and eight assists for Phoenix in 2008-09, but has spent this season in the American Hockey League.

Tikhonov, selected 28th overall in the 2008 NHL entry draft, is the grandson of the legendary Russian hockey coach of the same name.

He is the second high-profile prospect in recent days to be loaned from the NHL to the Russian league, with the Columbus Blue Jackets lending Nikita Filatov, also to CSKA Moscow.

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