Ajax84
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- May 23, 2016
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I'm not sure that KHL is tougher than AHL. I know the common line is that the KHL is the second best league in the world, but I still feel like the AHL probably is. There is more NHL ready talent in the AHL than the KHL, they play a longer and more physical schedule and they play a closer style to NHL and obviously identical rink size. I don't say that the AHL is far superior to the KHL, but I do believe it has a slight edge, especially if the goal is a path to the NHL.
Admittedly I don't watch a lot of KHL, maybe two games a month max, but I have never seen anything that makes me think the KHL is some rival of the NHL as it was originally touted to become.
The KHL is absolutely more competitive than the AHL. The only "advantage" of the AHL comes from having identical rink dimensions to the NHL. A ranking of the world's leagues probably looks something like this:
NHL
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KHL
Sweden-1
Finland-1
AHL/Swiss-1
Germany-1/Czech-1
Austria-1/Slovakia-1/Sweden-2/Russia-2
Britain-1/ECHL/France-1/Norway-1/Finland-2
The AHL is probably a scratch better than the Swiss top league, and there might need to be a gap between the KHL and Sweden.
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