CEO”Salavat Yulaev » Rinat Bashirov told that the Ufa club could sign a contract with another foreign hockey player before the deadline.
Among the foreign players of Salavat’s color this season, Canadians Nicholas Melosh and Joshua Livo, as well as American Alexander Khmelevsky, are defending. Starting this season, the KHL has a limit of three foreigners on its roster.
— “Salavat Yulaev” has been winning a lot lately, playing aggressively in attack. Why did this happen?
– It’s the merit of the technical staff, they changed the situation. And the whole league is moving towards offensive hockey. It was obvious to the coaching staff: if at the beginning of the season we followed the path of trial and error, now it is clear that in the KHL we have to play exactly the way we try to do.
And many teams also play aggressively and interestingly. The public reacted immediately, attendance increased and stadiums were filled to capacity. Even when a team loses, we judge by the comments – it’s okay, we move on, but it’s interesting to go to Salavat Yulaev’s matches.
— Can more legionnaires settle in Ufa? For example, Corey Perry.
— If we receive such an offer, of course, we will consider it. We have options. But it has to be a great character who really helps the team. The fact is that we already have three foreigners, we don’t want to leave anyone behind. But we have a schedule rotation for defenders. Maybe we will do the same with the attackers – Livo will rest somewhere, after all, he was injured at the start of the season. We can look into that.
But so far, such proposals have not been made and we must see mutual benefit. A candidate for a place in the team must want to come to us and not to the main team. And the question of money, of course, is that a legionnaire can come to Ufa and earn money.
— The club is not pressed under the salary cap.
“Yes, we have a reserve of about 200 million rubles,” Bashirov told .
Salavat Yulaev is third in the Eastern Conference standings with 50 points.
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