Lokomotiv to Return to KHL Next Term - Official

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There is “no doubt” that Lokomotiv Yaroslavl will return to the KHL next season with a new squad after a plane crash killed the entire team in September, KHL vice-president Vladimir Shalaev said Monday.

There is “no doubt” that Lokomotiv Yaroslavl will return to the KHL next season with a new squad after a plane crash killed the entire team in September, KHL vice-president Vladimir Shalaev said Monday.

Forty-four people died when the team’s plane crashed shortly after take-off from Yaroslavl on the way to Minsk for the first game of the season.

“There are no doubts whatsoever that Lokomotiv will play in the KHL from next season, not one,” Shalaev said.

“Yaroslavl already has a very good understanding of the likely roster and what it is capable of.”

A Lokomotiv team composed of youth players and loans from other clubs has been competing successfully in Russia’s second-tier Major Hockey League since December, and Shalaev said that Lokomotiv will probably elect to field teams in both leagues next season.

Lokomotiv had set an example to Russia’s smaller hockey teams, Shalaev said.

“They saw how to organize a club, how to deal with a given match at the very highest, world-class level.”

 

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