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Injured midfielder Javier Morales returned to RSL practice today, and spent some time joking around with the teammates who visited with him after the workout and admired the little scooter that allows him to get around despite his surgically repaired ankle.But the bigger news came off the field.Amid a troublesome scoring drought and injuries and absences to almost its entire corps of strikers, the team has signed Artur Aghasyan — he's a cousin of former RSL striker Yura Movsisyan, who led the team in scoring 2008 — while releasing Conor Chinn, whom the team had signed in March after he had been waived by the New York Red Bulls.Coach Jason Kreis said the team saw a lot of potential in Chinn, and had hoped to keep him around long enough to develop into a player who could make a difference. But "you find out now that we don't have time for patience and development," Kreis said. "We need somebody we think can contribute right now."So Aghasyan is expected to be on the 18-man roster of available players for RSL when it meets the Seattle Sounders at Rio Tinto Stadium on Saturday night — looking to extend its 29-game home unbeaten streak in the Major League Soccer regular-season. Aghasyan will wear No. 14, the same number that Movsisyan wore. (Movsisyan, by the way, plays professionally now for Krasnodar FC in the Russian Premier League, and is preparing to play for Armenia in a Euro 2012 qualifying game against Russia on June 4.)The 23-year-old Aghasyan had played both for and against RSL during the preseason in 2009, for the minor-league Ventura County Fusion. The team was impressed with him then, Kreis said, but at the time was flush with top forwards such as Movsisyan, Robbie Findley and Fabian Espindola.But now that almost all of its strikers are hurt, RSL had another look.Aghasyan has been on trial with the team for the past week or so, and might be able to address what Kreis described as "one of our problems" — the inability to stretch the field and get behind defenses."He still has those intangibles, those abilities," Kreis said. "He's fast, he's good with his running. He gives us another option at forward."The team needs it, too.Both Alvaro Saborio and Arturo Alvarez are away on international duty for the upcoming Gold Cup, and RSL officials discovered through a newspaper article on Friday that Alvarez strained a hamstring in training with the Salvadoran national team and is not expected to play in its friendly this weekend.What's more, fellow forward Paulo Junior is out with a hip flexor injury, Espindola has missed four straight games — he's expected to start against the Sounders — and young Donny Toia has been judged too inexperienced to contribute yet. The team seems likely to use midfielder Jean Alexandre in attack against the Sounders, and general manager Garth Lagerwey said he had never seen so many players at the same position hurt and unavailable at the same time.Meanwhile, the team also has recalled midfielder Luis Gil from the U-18 national team that's playing in the Lisbon Annual Tournament in Portugal — Gil set up the goal that earned a 1-1 draw with the Netherlands earlier this week — and plans to send third-string goalkeeper Tim Melia out on loan to minor-league FC New York to gain some game experience.