Sports director “Metallurgy” Sergei Gomolyako in an interview with , he talked about strengthening the Magnitogorsk club in the offseason.
“Metallurg” won the Gagarin Cup at the end of the season, beating Yaroslavl “Locomotive” in the final series with a score of 4-0.
— Why didn’t Metallurg apply to the market for stars such as Alexander Radulov or Vadim Shipachev?
— We had a conversation about Shipachev, but the head coach Andrei Razin This was immediately rejected.
— Even if they greatly reduced their financial requirements?
— Razin has his own approach to work. What’s the point of getting involved? The main thing is to help and do what he asks.
— With this attitude towards veterans, even Evgeni Malkin will not come to Metallurg now?
– Well, he will come as one of his own, depending on the location. Your veterans are still useful in your home club. And they are unlikely to be accepted into other teams. Generally speaking, there is now a trend towards rejuvenation in the KHL. Even Ilya Vorobyov followed this path to CSKA. If you dig around you can find a lot of interesting guys in the MHL and VHL. You just need to dig deeper.
— You don’t have many acquisitions. Only Scott Wilson.
— Also Danil Bashkirov. We are strengthening ourselves in a targeted manner. I fulfill the tasks set by Andrei Vladimirovich. We communicate with him to find out who we need and for what positions. And we close them. We kept all the defenders. And I think we have a good defense. Attack – Bashkirov, Wilson… Maybe Shalagin will play if he stops drinking. It’s a joke. In general, we have normal work in the off-season.
— Would you like to go back to five legionnaires?
— It’s normal, the competition in the KHL will be higher. Perhaps the salary cap should be increased to give more room to maneuver. Looking for foreigners: Europeans are hard to convince. And Canadians are happy to go there, they receive a decent salary and are not in such demand in North America. If we’re talking about roles, then we would need another center – it’s always a position in shortage. There are indications who it could be, we are negotiating with them,” Gomolyako told .
The next KHL season begins on September 3 with the opening match of the Cup between Metallurg and Lokomotiv.
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