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KHL Trades, Rumors and Free Agent Talk Part 6

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powerplaymaker said:
They are going to let Zapolski go.

I wouldn't say that Niemi is ancient. Rinne, Thomas, Kipper, and lots of others have proved that goalies can be better at an old age. Eremenko vs Jokerit few months back was just another statement of that. Niemi - Kalnins sounds very good to me!
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I wouldn't count on Niemi at this point of this career. He hasn't been good in years and frankly wasn't even close to NHL level this year.
 
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powerplaymaker said:
He was pretty good, at least OK, in MTL just last season. Niemi has always been better with more minutes. When Price is/was OK he had to sit a lot.
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Price's play wasn't the only reason Niemi had to sit so much. He was simply incapable of giving his team adequate goaltending. He's slow and his technique is beyond dreadful. Trust me, it's not a case of confidence or not getting to play a lot; Niemi is just bad. Great career though and good for him to get another shot in a solid league.
 
Really doubtful to the signing of Niemi, I would much rather take a younger Finnish goalie that has more than just a few years left.

Feels like ancient signings with both Kontiola and Niemi
 
Dietz renews with Barys by inking a 3-year contract. I'd like to take this as a sign of Barys saying, "We will keep doing our best and become a top team". I'm sure there are some here and there but we rarely see long contracts such as that one in the KHL. That is commitment.
 
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hansomreiste said:
Dietz renews with Barys by inking a 3-year contract. I'd like to take this as a sign of Barys saying, "We will keep doing our best and become a top team". I'm sure there are some here and there but we rarely see long contracts such as that one in the KHL. That is commitment.
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We need to get into the habit of calling them 'Nur-Sultan' now :nod:
 
Jussi said:
When we're talking about a soon to be 36 year old goalie, it's more about "what have you done for me lately" than "memory lane".
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Well yeah, anyone can tell Niemi is a bit of a risk. But it's risk worth taking, I think. I'm more than happy that (if) he is replacing Zapo.
 
Dinamo Minsk apparently giving up all the local players who were actually worth something in my eyes - Buinitsky, Khenkel, Lisovets. Aquiring ageing and untested Malyavko twins and young goalie Osipkov from local domestic league, none of them strike me as having any chance at being impact players as they couldn't stand out even in 1B WC where they made Belarus national team debut couple of weeks ago. So far so terrible. :/
 
Fisenko off to Kazan. Avangard have been surprisingly active so far. Not many major pieces as of yet but still a lot of traffic. Mikheev will be sorely missed.

Rigafan said:
We need to get into the habit of calling them 'Nur-Sultan' now :nod:
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I strictly refuse to do it, at least for now. Nursultan sounds atrocious as a city name to a Turkish ear. Of all things they could have changed the name of... they picked the capital, which had a very cool and nice name to begin with. I will need to get used to it, if I ever can.
 
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ozo said:
Dinamo Minsk apparently giving up all the local players who were actually worth something in my eyes - Buinitsky, Khenkel, Lisovets. Aquiring ageing and untested Malyavko twins and young goalie Osipkov from local domestic league, none of them strike me as having any chance at being impact players as they couldn't stand out even in 1B WC where they made Belarus national team debut couple of weeks ago. So far so terrible. :/
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Is anything confirmed about Khenkel and Lisovets?

But yeah, Minsk is gonna be the new version of 18/19 Admiral, it seems.
 
SoundAndFury said:
Is anything confirmed about Khenkel and Lisovets?
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Not confirmed, but the rumors looks exactly like the ones that foreshadowed the Buinitsky leaving. Also there was an interview that said DM wants to signt 7 foreigners including goalie (Enroth could be returned), so they of course will be core of this team, but it seems that the local support players will be even weaker than usually.
 
@su24 @kabidjan18

The great Belarusian defenseman on 1-way contract Vorobei traded from Sibir to Avto where he is the 9th best defenseman (optimistic evaluation) for Torch who finished the season in the VHL last year. 1 way contract or not, the guy is either going to the VHL or not going to play at all.

Jokerit, meanwhile, trades Manninen to SYu for a bag of money. Depends on how big the bag is but that does not look great on the surface.
 
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SoundAndFury said:
@su24 @kabidjan18

The great Belarusian defenseman on 1-way contract Vorobei traded from Sibir to Avto where he is the 9th best defenseman (optimistic evaluation) for Torch who finished the season in the VHL last year. 1 way contract or not, the guy is either going to the VHL or not going to play at all.

Jokerit, meanwhile, trades Manninen to SYu for a bag of money. Depends on how big the bag is but that does not look great on the surface.
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Why did Torchenyuk end up in the VHL? He was one of their leaders a year ago.
 
SoundAndFury said:
@su24 @kabidjan18

The great Belarusian defenseman on 1-way contract Vorobei traded from Sibir to Avto where he is the 9th best defenseman (optimistic evaluation) for Torch who finished the season in the VHL last year. 1 way contract or not, the guy is either going to the VHL or not going to play at all.

Jokerit, meanwhile, trades Manninen to SYu for a bag of money. Depends on how big the bag is but that does not look great on the surface.
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Manninen wasn't going to continue with Jokerit anyway, there's supposedly been significant interest in him from NHL.
 
SoundAndFury said:
Media relations signing and not much else.

Yurtaikin, meanwhile, has signed with Sharks.
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Ouch, I wanted the Isles to draft him his overage year. Really thought he was pretty good in the WJHC the year he played. Might well make the NHL down the line.
 
cska78 said:
Why did Torchenyuk end up in the VHL? He was one of their leaders a year ago.
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He is more on the scoring side, hardly a shut-down guy so there was no place for him in this new and improved Avto top-6 and he is not suitable for bottom-6 one.. Also, that horrible injury in the pre-season which made teams discontinue the game.

He is a talented guy and he will bounce back but for Avto the way it is now, he was a spare part which gets a decent salary.
 
So apparently after seeing what tire fire Minsk is going to be Andrievsky refused the head coach position as well. So they are pretty much back to square 1.
 
Dynamo Moscow rumored to sign Nikulin. If that happens they might have the oldest team in the league by some margin, they already reinked Yeryomenko, Tereshchenko and Afinogenov. As much as I respect them as players, this doesn't fill me with confidence towards the next season.
 
So SKA takes Kochetkov from their KHL farm team. What a shocker.

And in Rykov's prospect thread there were Russians thinking transactions between those 2 teams are actual hockey trades :laugh:

They also signed Lukas Bengtsson to take the last import spot.. Well, this season is going to be very different for them.
 
SoundAndFury said:
So SKA takes Kochetkov from their KHL farm team. What a shocker.

And in Rykov's prospect thread there were Russians thinking transactions between those 2 teams are actual hockey trades :laugh:

They also signed Lukas Bengtsson to take the last import spot.. Well, this season is going to be very different for them.
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I saw your comment in the 19/20 season thread before it was deleted or moved, but I had to look the guy up and Eliteprospects has him listed as playing for both Sochi in the KHL and Ryazan in the VHL, so would that not be an inter team transfer?
 
mkev400 said:
I saw your comment in the 19/20 season thread before it was deleted or moved, but I had to look the guy up and Eliteprospects has him listed as playing for both Sochi in the KHL and Ryazan in the VHL, so would that not be an inter team transfer?
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It is, SKA and Sochi simply have this "partnership" where SKA sends them the players they don't need/don't have roster space for while today Sochi evidently returns the favor by sending SKA likely their best prospect ever. For SKA's VHL backup.

This topic might be hard to understand to the full extent to people who don't follow KHL closely. Loaning players used to be an official thing during RSL days but KHL wanted to remove it. It all turned into a bit of a joke as the loans still obviously exist they just aren't called that. There are teams (Amur, Sochi) who pick up half of their roster that way. However, it has mostly worked one way - big teams sent their players to the small ones and took them back after the season. However, this might be the first instance where the small team gives up their best prospect (and best Russian goalie prospect) for basically nothing to the "parent" team.

Not that it's at all surprising in this case but it just shows what a ridiculous sandbox this league is to the big teams. It has been a common knowledge small teams can't really fight big ones if those want their players (even when players themselves don't want to leave (like Kruchinin)) but at least they received money for them. In this particular case, SKA just said: "send Kochetkov over to us and we will owe you one".
 
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