Yaroslavsky”Locomotive » has the financial capacity to recruit one or two quality players and negotiates with Artem Anisimov said hockey club president Yuri Yakovlev.
Earlier, former Lokomotiv player Anisimov said he hasn’t decided yet where to pursue his career. The hockey player plans to play in the NHL, but currently has no contract with a North American club.
– We enter the season with stable funding, with great gratitude to Russian Railways and the regional administration. Thanks to this, we cannot be afraid of funding problems, which gives us the opportunity to operate more freely during the season.
– They write that the club’s wage bill is 826 million rubles, 70 million remain under the ceiling?
– There is a small reserve, we continue the selection, we are looking for players. We want a quality hockey player, one or two. If he is available, we will definitely take him. There is no big difference, a Russian or a legionnaire, here the main criterion is quality.
– What is your attitude towards the legionnaires?
We don’t have a hard line. We look at the quality, at the level of the players. We don’t have an average level of foreign players, we have enough of our own players, young people who have to be given a chance. Given our strategy, it is wrong to take a player by closing the place of youth. We negotiate and seek. Unfortunately, we haven’t decided yet. We are also negotiating with Anisimov, but we haven’t decided yet, we are in waiting mode.
Lokomotiv will start the new KHL season on September 2 with an away game against Avtomobilist.
Source : MatchTV
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