Two players from Khabarovsk “Amur” are heading to the Major League

Striker Sergei Kolesnikov, who played for Sokol, joined the team.

As it turned out, the head coach of Amur was not joking at all when at a press conference after the match with St. Petersburg SKA thunder and lightning, promising players who do not want to fight and give their all, exile to the Major League, or even a farewell to the team through a waiver draft. You can understand the mentor – it is he who will be responsible for the result at the end of the season to the club management. And the expectations of both the management and the fans, excited by the pre-season PR, are very high.

No one has been included in the “refuseniks” yet, but two “tigers” will go to Sokol to gain the desire to play – forward Vladislav Barulin and defender Kirill Spitsenko. As Amur fans note, the “tower” has been crying for Barulin for a long time this season. Last year, he finished at -5 with 13 points. Scored 7 goals and gave 6 assists in 57 games. This season he is -3. Everything else is zero.

He spent one full season at Amur. He joined the team in 2022, making his debut in the match against Siberia. Vlad really needs to cheer up. The hockey player from the CSKA system was at one time considered one of the most productive forwards in the MHL-V and VHL.

The second player heading to Krasnoyarsk is defender Kirill Spitsenko. He came to Amur as a result of an exchange from Avangard. Then the Omsk club received the rights to striker Ivan Nikolishin, forward Daniil Fesenko and defender Kirill Spitsenko were sent to Khabarovsk, and of course Amur received good monetary compensation.

Now about the newcomers. On the eve of the departure, forward Sergei Kolesnikov will join Amur. According to the Khabarovsk club, he started the season in the VHL and played 10 games for Sokol, scoring 2 points – scoring 1 goal and giving 1 assist. He has a one-year contract with Amur, which was concluded after watching them at the pre-season training camp in Novogorsk. As for last season, Kolesnikov played for Diesel in the VHL regular season and scored 20 (9+11) points in 42 games. In the playoffs he had 2 assists in 4 matches.

Now, after 9 games, Amur is in 10th place in the East conference with only 8 points. Only the neighboring Admiral and Neftekhimik have less. At the moment, the Far Easterners have won three matches, one of them in shootouts. We lost six games, one of them in shootouts, one in overtime.

After three games at home, the Khabarovsk team is going away. The series will consist of four matches, the first of which will take place on September 27 in Nizhnekamsk with the local Neftekhimik. Further along the route: Mytishchi, Kazan and Yekaterinburg. According to the club, 27 players are heading to the second away series of the season.

Goalkeepers: Janis Kalnins, Dmitry Lozebnikov, Igor Bobkov.

Defenders: Evgeny Kulik, Victor Baldaev, Yakov Rylov, Alexander Bryntsev, Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Volgin, Cameron Lee, Ivan Mishchenko, Alexander Shchemerov.

Forwards: Sergey Lapin, Arthur Gizdatullin, Yan Drozg, Vyacheslav Gretsky, Stanislav Bocharov, Evgeny Grachev, Ignat Korotkikh, Egor Korshkov, Alexander Khokhlachev, Dmitry Shevchenko, Kirill Kapustin, Alexander Lazarev, Anatoly Nikontsev, Pyotr Khokhryakov, Kirill Slepets.

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“Amur” in Khabarovsk lost to “Dynamo” in overtime. Khabarovsk hockey players were the first to take the lead, but then failed in the second period and were never able to take the lead