The Finnish NHL star has had offspring, reports Ilta-Sanomat.
Aleksander Barkov is the father of a one-year-old child. MIkko Pylkkö/AOP
Evening News reported that the NHL hockey player Alexander Barkov has had a child with an American woman.
The boy was born on December 3 last year, so he celebrated his first birthday last week.
The matter was confirmed to the newspaper by the player’s father Aleksandr Barkov seniorwho said that the child spent a week in Finland last summer.
– He’s a good boy. Everyone is happy, grandfather mused.
Barkov, 27, is in his 10th season in the NHL and with the Florida Panthers, where he serves as team captain.