general manager “Avant-garde” Anton Kurianov in an interview with , he said the club was in no rush to sign the American striker Reed Boucher Russian citizenship.
Boucher scored 78 points (44+34) in 64 regular season games and became the best sniper in the championship. In 12 playoff matches, the 30-year-old American forward scored 11 (9+2) points.
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 their 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 it.
— Have you thought about issuing a Russian passport to the same Reed Bush? So that you have not three strangers, but more. The same Brendan Laipsic enters the market.
— Why was a limit of three foreign players imposed in the league, if we then gave them passports? We are wrong here. Not everything is so simple with Bush to give him Russian citizenship. And the same Laipsic this season was considered a foreigner with a Russian passport, he will receive Russian sports citizenship only in the new season. That is, it is also necessary to take into account the timing and whether it will be ‘missed’ based on the documents,” Kuryanov told .
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