WalterSobchak
Blues Trololol
TSN.ca
Is this what is going to happen...not only with European players who have to make that decision to leave their family, their home and everything they know, but perhaps for highly skilled North Americans?
Ovechkin, who is currently in Omsk training with the team, was recently quoted in the Russian sports daily Sport Express as saying that if an arbitrator had decided he could stay in Omsk, then he would stay in the Russian Super League, but if it was decided he had to return to Dynamo ''I would pack my stuff quickly and go to the NHL.''
Ovechkin can make more money playing with Omsk next season than as a rookie in the NHL as league has scaled back salaries and bonuses on entry level contracts in the new CBA.
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''In Russia, it's the wild west. Cash passed hands,'' Meehan said. ''That's my guess.''
Is this what is going to happen...not only with European players who have to make that decision to leave their family, their home and everything they know, but perhaps for highly skilled North Americans?