Athletistic/Hockey. General Director of Kazan Ak Bars Marat Valiullin spoke about the club’s selection. Recently, the KHL runner-up made contact with American defenseman Mitchell Miller, American forward Riley Barber, and also signed a tryout agreement with Russian defenseman Alexei Marchenko.
“Our selection is not finished. We are now considering various options, we still have a month before the deadline. At the moment the team has a vacant foreign player position, so anything can happen,” Valiullina said , cited by Sport-Express. .
Ak Bars scored 42 points in 35 matches and is in fifth place in the KHL Eastern Conference standings. Last season, the Kazan team reached the final of the Gagarin Cup, where they lost to CSKA Moscow in a seven-match series (3-4 in the series).
Source: Sport
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