The head coach “Admiral » Leonid Tambiev in an interview with , he said the team lacks top young strikers Dmitri Bushelnikov .
In 55 matches of the 2023/24 regular season, 20-year-old Buchelnikov scored 29 (13+16) points in matches for the Admiral. The striker graduated from the Tyumen “Gazovik” and studied at the Khanty-Mansiysk “Ugra” and Chelyabinsk “Traktor” schools. Since the 2019/20 season he has played in the St. Petersburg SKA system and in the MHL he played for the SKA-Varyag and SKA-1946 teams. On October 4, 2023, he was loaned to Admiral until the end of the season.
On Wednesday, the Russian Hockey Federation (RHF) announced that it would consider reducing the limit on the number of foreign players to five for the 2024/25 season. Starting from the 2023/24 season, Russian teams in the Fonbet KHL Championship cannot include more than three foreigners in the application for matches. The KHL has contacted the Russian Sports Ministry with a proposal to increase the limit on foreign athletes. The FHR coaches council unanimously opposed this.
– Lokomotiv has only one foreigner – Slovakian Martin Gernat. “Metallurg” – two foreign actors: American Luke Johnson and Swede Robin Press. So three foreigners aren’t even necessary?
— We can talk a lot, but Igor Nikitin and Andrei Razin have very promising young Russians in their hands. They are of a very high level. Lokomotiv usually has a group of local hockey players – club patriots who have played in Yaroslavl all their lives. They grew up there, they have an intelligent and powerful school.
We are talking about top clubs where everything is aligned. They train the players there themselves. Magnitogorsk – Yurov revealed himself there, the same Grebenkin shot in Khabarovsk. Last year, everything was clear to him.
I don’t usually complain. But if I had at least two of these Buchelnikovs, the admiral would also have a powerful attack. What can I say ? Two or three of these strikers – and I too would probably give up on foreign players. But where can I find them so that they produce results and embody the coach’s thoughts on the ice? Our Typhoon is still an underdog in the MHL, scoring only 21 points during the season. Well, who can I take there? We are talking about serious things,” Tambiev told .
Admiral did not reach the Gagarin Cup playoffs this season, earning 54 points in 68 matches and finishing 11th in the Eastern Conference.
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