I had the same thought. I honestly don’t think there’s much of a chance Muk could come over either, even with his contract. It’s simply not up to them whether they’re allowed to leave the country. And you can bet Putin is aware of what the optics would be with a mass exodus of Russian players to other pro leagues.
Dunno, the massive brain drain going to neighboring ex-Soviet republics seems to show that there's not a lot of tide stemming going on.
Aren't the only financially well-off clubs CKSA Moscow and SKA St. Petersburg? And that's because they're owned by, respectively, Rosneft & Gazprom. I also can't see Kunlun Red Star coming back- it's still almost impossible to travel internationally from China to the rest of the world, and the Beijing Winter Olympics are over and so is the CCP's campaign of trying to gas up ice hockey to the public.
Not to get all political here, but stopping people from signing NHL contracts simply because of where they where born exerts zero pressure on the Russian government and is nothing but a way to make people feel like they're helping so they don't have to come to terms with the fact they're powerless because of 30 years of past NATO decisions. No different to me than, say, not performing Tchaikovsky simply because he's Russian.
He'd shock me and I already know about him.
Not sure if a casual fan knows much about Luke amd Holtz either. “Oh look! We have twoguys names Hughes on the team ? They both are really fast ! And they seem to score a lot. Hmm cool
The casual fan doesn't hear about Devils prospects the same way we hear about Toronto prospects, that's for sure. I'm a huge Nate Robertson fan and really like Rasmus Sandin, but after they were drafted the way they were written about you'd think they were Cole Caufield and Rasmus Dahlin.
What do the Knicks have to do with any of this?
Do we hate the Knicks as much as we hate the Rangers or are we just feeling sorry?
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