MONTREAL — Sergei Zholtok, struggling this season with the Montreal Canadiens, joined his fourth NHL club Monday when he was traded to the Edmonton Oilers for center Chad Kilger.
Zholtok scored a team-high 26 goals with Montreal last season. But in 32 games this year, the Latvian center has just one goal and 10 assists.
The 28-year-old Zholtok broke into the league with Boston in 1992-93. He spent two seasons in Ottawa before joining Montreal as a free agent in 1998.
Kilger, 24, has also struggled this season — he has five goals and two assists in 34 games. Kilger was a first-round draft pick of the Anaheim Mighty Ducks in 1995 but has just 34 goals in 281 career games.
In 1996, he was dealt by Anaheim to Winnipeg as part of a deal in which the Ducks landed Teemu Selanne. Two years later, Kilger was traded to Chicago before being dealt to Edmonton last year.