It was announced by KHL president Alexander Medvedev that a disaster draft will be conducted to assemble a new team for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. Every other team in the league will select up to three players for the pool of 40–45 players for Lokomotiv to select in the disaster draft, which will select up to 14 players, as five players will be promoted from Lokomotiv's youth team, and forward Maxim Zyuzyakin, who did not travel with the team will form the core of the roster before the start of the disaster draft.[10] The drafted players will continue to receive salaries from their respective teams.[11] Lokomotiv's former coach Petr Vorobiev has been hired as the new head coach.