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Ekaterina played with Adam Liebold since his first season in Kelowna. After being picked on waivers, he was the first to welcome him to the team. They were then picked by Baltimore in the second round, in the same draft. Since then, they thrived to become the best penalty kill unit in the league, and Adam became of the one of the best – if not the best – shorthanded goal scorer in the history of the franchise.

Thomas joined a few seasons later and the three of them became the what the Maryland media named “the Liebold sandwich line”, with both brothers playing on the wing, with Valieva at the center. Ekaterina played with both of them for six seasons so far, and twelve with Adam (in Kelowna and Baltimore). The Leibold sandwich line scored 423 goals in six seasons, and Ekaterina and Adam scored, often together, 56 shorthanded goals in nine seasons in Baltimore. In the S76 playoffs, the Liebold sandwich line scored 28 goals and 71 points in 23 games.

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