Athletistic / Hockey Oleg Gross, managing director of Avtomobilist, said strengthening the goalkeeping line had become the club’s main priority during the summer off-season.

“In recent years, our goalkeeper line, due to objective and subjective circumstances, has not been balanced as we would like. Therefore, this summer we have done everything to strengthen it as much as possible.

Now we have three goalkeepers – and good working competition between them, which will only benefit the team. Which of them has which number – the season will show,” Gross told Russia-Hockey.ru.

Note that the goal of the Urals club in the coming season will be defended by Vladimir Galkin, Johan Mattsson and Igor Bobkov.