Defender “Motorist » Maxim Osipov was seriously injured in the Fonbet KHL championship match against Kazan Ak Bars, the press service of the Yekaterinburg club reports.
The teams met on Thursday and ended with the victory of Avtomobilist with a score of 2:1. It appears the hockey player “has a broken upper body and will be out of action for an extended period of time.” Osipov will have surgery on Monday.
This season, 30-year-old Osipov played 38 matches for Avtomobilist, scoring 8 points (2 goals + 6 assists).
Avtomobilist (49 years old) is sixth in the KHL Eastern Conference standings.
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Official website of the HC “Avtomobilist”
Source : MatchTV
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