Hockey
Salavat Yulaev signed a contract with two-time winner of the Gagarin Cup Timkin
Evgeny Timkin / Photo: © KHL / Bezzubov Vladimir
Forwards Evgeny Timkin and Stanislav Bocharov became players of the Ufa “Salavat Yulaev”, according to the official website of the hockey club.
The agreement with 31-year-old Timkin is for two years. Last season, the striker played for SKA St. Petersburg, earlier he also defended the colors of Metallurg Magnitogorsk, Vityaz near Moscow, Avangard Omsk. Timkin is a two-time winner of the Gagarin Cup with Magnitogorsk (2014, 2016), a bronze medalist of the Russian and KHL championships (2021 and 2022). In total in the KHL, he played 725 games, scored 167 points (88 goals + 79 assists).
Bocharov signed a one-year contract with Salavat Yulaev. The 30-year-old hockey player spent the past season at Avtomobilist, and in total played 559 KHL games for various teams, earned 206 points (98 + 108). As part of the Russian youth team in 2011, he became the world champion.
In the 2021/22 season, Salavat Yulaev lost to Traktor Chelyabinsk in the second round of the KHL playoffs – 2-4. In April, it was announced that Tommy Lamsya had left the post of head coach of the team, and was replaced by Viktor Kozlov.
Source: Sportbox
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