Russian Hockey
Is Russian hockey in permanent decline?
I know the Russian pro clubs are well financed by maybe sketchy people, and get good crowds. However I heard a lot of the Soviet era rinks have been converted to other purposes. If kids don’t have a place to play, where are the future elite players going to come from?
Should the NHL try harder to work with Russian hockey so they don’t just gut that source of talent?
Actually it’s not in aq decline at all. During the recent NHL meetings, the current Russian head of sport (some guy named Fetisov) was talking about how the numbers are at all time highs and growing. Currently hockey is the 4th largest sport in Russia behind Soccer, Basketball, and Tennis, and making inroads on Tennis.
As you mentioned, Russian club teams of late have been well subsidized by the Roman Abramoviches of the world, and that has kept the Soviet (the league still has teams in Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine) league going.
Bob, the only major hockey country not in the IIHF transfer agreement is Russia. There is talk that after this one expires that Sweden and Finland will opt out, but that talk existed before this agreement was signed last year. The fact is for Sweden and Finland, opting out would be a huge loss financially.
As it stands now, for each player drafted, or signed as a free agent from one of the signatories (Germany, Sweden, France, Italy, Finland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, and Austria) the NHL club will pay the IIHF $200,000. This money is pooled and then proportionally distributed to the signatory IIHF member nations (Germany, Sweden, and Czech Republic get the most right now).
Russian teams want the $200,000 as well, but they want it sent directly to the club that loses the player, not through the hands of Rene Fasel. Everybody but Russia is against that idea.
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