SKA attracts youth talent because the money and sponsorship is gigantic. So sure, this gives rise to top-quality specialists.
But Rotenberg is merely a political by-product of that funding. And not a good one. The two aren’t mutually exclusive.
It’s dudes like Timchenko, and beyond him, Miller, who are responsible for hockey existing/thriving in today’s economic realities.
Roma Rotenberg is just the beneficiary clown.
SKA is basing in a good place to live for specialist and have money. For Russian economics its how it works. There are no real market if there will be no sponsorships from country. Country wants to develop hockey, so they give money. And how much money you will invest in some other places, good specialist from outside will never go to work there because they dont wanna live there. Its just life. There are no alternatives in real life before regions will start to be more attractive for living.
Rotenberg isnt the best or smartest person, but at least he investing, working, participates and creates initiatives. He loves hockey, no matter how weird he would be. This country has known and seen a huge number of people who were simply engaged in robbing and doing nothing.At the same time, as I have already said, despite the fact that many get into the SKA system, Rotenberg sends many to other organizations, as has now happened with Buchelnikov, Michkov and Khusnutdinov. Pure walking evil would save them because it was in his power. Several KHL clubs, in principle, exist on the money of the organization.
And this whole system is absolutely no different from what is happening in Europe in football. There are big clubs that collect all the talents for themselves, and if they didn't take someone away, they buy them for themselves. Because this is the economy of the European major championships. Regardless of the sport. And this discontent in fact is mostly disagreement with how this world works. The KHL is not the NHL and will not be so for a very, very long time, because the infrastructure and economy in Russia are arranged differently.
And, as I have already said, from the point of view of sports development, from the point of view of hockey parents who are interested in their children in different regions, from the point of view of the reality of the possibility of hockey development, it all looks different than from the point of view of couch haters.
As media person he is awkward, as general manager he wasnt as bad but now he is doing a lot of panic moves he shouldnt do from the beggining.
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