Former NHL defenseman Tony DeAngelo has departed from the KHL’s SKA St. Petersburg. Due to family reasons, DeAngelo reached a mutual agreement to leave the club and will return to North America.

Through 34 games with St. Petersburg this season, DeAngelo climbed to third in team scoring and first among defensemen with 32 points counting six goals and 26 assists. Across the KHL, DeAngelo ranked third in scoring among rearguards, 10 points back of former Arizona Coyotes defenseman Trevor Murphy of Sibir Novosibirsk for top spot.

The 29-year-old Sewell, N.J., native was skating in his first season in Russia following an eight-year NHL career that counted 371 total appearances and stops with the Coyotes, New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers, and two separate stints with the Carolina Hurricanes. Along the way, DeAngelo amassed 48 goals and 162 assists for 210 points alongside 329 penalty minutes. DeAngelo also added 13 points through 26 postseason appearances.

In all, the offensive-minded blue-liner twice reached the 50-point plateau, highlighted by the 2019-20 campaign with New York when he finished fourth in team scoring and led all Rangers rearguards with 15 goals and 38 assists.

Originally selected 19th overall by the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2014, DeAngelo never skated with the Florida club and was ultimately dealt to the Coyotes two years later in exchange for a second-round selection in the 2016 NHL Draft. DeAngelo then debuted in Arizona that fall, putting up five goals and nine assists for 14 points in 39 games.

A dynamic defenseman at the junior level, DeAngelo played four seasons with the OHL’s Sarnia Sting and Soo Greyhounds from 2011-15, amassing north of point-per-game production counting 55 goals and 186 assists through 236 appearances. In 2014-15, a season in which he split time with the Sting and Greyhounds, DeAngelo was recognized as the CHL Defenseman of the Year after producing 89 points in 55 games.