Avangard Omsk and Reed Bush agree to extend the contract for another year

On Tuesday, December 6, Alexander Krylov, chairman of the board of directors of HC Avangard, announced that the club had signed a new contract with its leader, the top scorer of the season, Reed Boucher. At the same time, the player’s agent quickly denied this in the press.

The head of the board of directors of Avangard, Alexander Krylov, on Tuesday, December 6, live on Studio 55 Live, the Avangard TV program traditionally shown during the team’s matches, said that the club had already signed a new contract with forward Reid Boucher. At the same time, the player’s agent soon clarified that this was not entirely true.

“Our goal is to at least keep our Knight-Boucher connection going, and I can assure our fans that we have finally agreed with Boucher to extend our contract for another year. He signed this contract, we will keep the bunch, and it will be one of the strongest in any form next year, ”said Krylov.

The player’s agent Ales Pilko, after that, in a comment for “Sport24” notedthat the contract has not yet been formalized – Bush is one of the best scorers in the KHL, so he deserves a worthy contract.

“While the process is at the stage of negotiations. Of course, if there is no result by a certain date, then Reed Boucher will become an unrestricted free agent after the season, ”the agent said.

And the telegram channel “Erykalovshchina” quickly drew attention to the contradiction.

“Krylov: We finally agreed with Bush, he signed a contract

Boucher Pilko’s agent the process is under negotiation, if there is no result by a certain date, then Bush will become an unrestricted free agent after the season

Interesting,” wrote the author of the channel.

It is worth noting that Bush has already left Avangard – for Lokomotiv. Such a “business trip” for him was not very successful – as in the camp of the “hawks” he did not shine there, and then a story surfaced with harassment of a schoolgirl in his homeland and the “travelers” terminated the contract with the player. But in the 2022 off-season, Reid returned to the Hawks.

As a result, however, one can understand that the parties agree and a compromise will be found later.

Earlier we also wrotethat Omsk hockey players lost at home to Salavat Yulaev.

We add that also on December 6, a meeting of the board of directors of the club was held, where, for example, Vyacheslav Renev was approved as the head of the direction for the development of the VHL and MHL teams. Prior to this post worked Alexander Svitovbut then he passed over to the coaching staff of the senior team.