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Cam Russell made another significant acquisition on Monday.

The Halifax Mooseheads general manager landed 19-year-old winger Ostap Safin and a 2021 fourth-round pick from the Saint John Sea Dogs for a 2020 first-round pick. Safin is a six-foot-five, 192-pound Czech sniper who had 58 points in 61 games as a QMJHL rookie last year. He led the Sea Dogs in scoring and is also a fourth-round pick (115th overall in 2017) of the Edmonton Oilers.

The Mooseheads added overage centre Samuel Asselin in a separate trade on Friday.

“I like his size, I like his skill level and it’s another NHL drafted player so we’re pretty excited,” Russell said. “It’s nice to add a 19-year-old and a guy who has experience. He’s played in the world junior and at an elite level. He’s a big, strong guy so there’s definitely lots to like about him.”

Safin fills the Mooseheads’ second European spot. Rookie centre Marcel Barinka is already in place after being picked in this year’s CHL import draft.

“I think if you look at our team right now, we’ve added the two pieces (Safin and Asselin) that we wanted to add,” Russell said. “We got our third 20 and we’re really happy with the guy we got, and now we’ve got our second European.

“Now we’ve got 14 forwards and seven defencemen so we can evaluate our guys from now until Christmas and see how it looks then. But right now we really like the group we have.”

Safin’s arrival means the Mooseheads have to cut ties with Swedish winger Samuel Fagemo, who was their first-round import pick in June ahead of Barinka. Fagemo, 18, is playing for the Frolunda Under-20 team in the Swedish SuperElit league and the Mooseheads couldn’t secure his release. The team will now cut him loose.

“We worked on Fagemo and we were having a tough time with the transfer so we just felt with Safin coming back to Saint John that he would be an excellent guy for us to go after,” Russell said. “We’re adding that key piece now and we can let our team come together for the whole year.”

The Mooseheads can still keep Finnish centre Otto Somppi and Czech winger Filip Zadina on separate protection lists but it still seems highly unlikely either one will be sent back to junior for another season. Somppi is with the AHL’s Syracuse Crunch and Zadina remains at the Detroit Red Wings camp.

But if either player winds up back in the Quebec league, Russell would have two weeks to make a decision on who his two imports would be.

“It’s just like Saint John’s situation when Safin got sent back,” Russell said. “They had two other guys already there so they had to do something with one of them but we’re not counting on anything happening there.

“With this trade, we obviously paid a decent price but we got a fourth back and we gave up our first but he’s the guy we wanted.”

Elsewhere, the Moncton Wildcats traded 20-year-old goalie Mark Grametbauer of Halifax to the Bathurst Titan for a 2021 fifth-round pick. Grametbauer has also played for the Gatineau Olympiques, Charlottetown Islanders and Blainville-Boisbriand Armada during his four-year QMJHL career.