I will try to sum up latest expansion news. Of course, nothing is decided.
The KHL executives talked about expansion plans in Vienna. Confirmed a serious talks with French league and Luc Tardiff personally.
There were talks with Vienna Capitals earlier, not now, but the club would fulfil the KHL´s requirements. One Russian journalist is afraid of KHL´s expansion to Germany and Austria soon, with ongoing negotiations with Austrians.
The league does not want the Lev story to repeat. The financing needs to be secured for a longer time.
The KHL will bring the KHL regular games to non-KHL cities, who have a potential to join later. The KHL World Games will continue next year.
The CEO of the EBEL, Christian Feichtinger, was present at the KHL press conference. The EBEL website even published an
article from the presser. Funny, because you will never see such a thing at the KHL website (for example the EBEL or the CHL press conference) or in Russian press.
Feichtinger is a member of the CHL Board of Directors. Generally, this Board consists of a funny members - Feichtinger attending the KHL presser, Tripcke attending the KHL All Star Game, Reindl attending the FHR events (btw supporting the KHL idea of a reform of the IIHF schedule
). Reindl substituted Fasel, who, btw. have attended all KHL events for last 10 years
Zahner is a mystery right now, but as we know, the KHL Winter Games are played in Zurich. Nobody knows why
I do not want to judge, but I can imagine guys from North of Europe are not friends of the KHL, plus Bříza.
Zamorsky is from Red Bull, who has a good relationship with the KHL. As said, a funny board.