According to the Hawks blogger on hockey buzz. Com, the Hawks have reached out to Maxim Shalunov to see if there is anyway they can bring him over for THIS SEASON! It depends on what escape clauses if any are in his contract with his KHL team ...there are some KHL Co tracts that allow players to buy our of their contracts ...if there is such a clause in his Co tract the 2nd question is whether the buy-out option is alkiwedxbwforectge start if the KHL season or only at a mid -season break time... You would figure Hawks already knew the workings of his contract such that this "rumour" would be a non-starter if there were no possibility of his escaping from such contract early ...if not ,and if this rumour us true,then Hawks are stupid..they ought to have known before letting go such a rumour out whether or not there was any possibility of getting out from that contract early .So I am hoping Hawks are not that stupid or negligent in their due diligence before giving fans false hope ...
If however,there is a way to bring g him over early ,whether for start of this seafood or at the Christmas break /KHL break somewhere near mid-season then that drastically changes the Hawks plans. .
Shalunov has been playing Centre and that could mean trading AA at some point t (start of season or at the break if Shalunov can only join us then. ...or it may depend on whether they have found a solution for 2LW or 1RW or not bevause Shalunov cam also play at wing.
The entire speculation is moot if he cannot get out of that contract early ..
Even if he can buy himself out of it, the question is how much monetary hit would he sacrifice of any ?Not sure if he enters NHL on standard ELC with bonus limits forvrookies or of it is some other forms of contract called for cases like this where bonus amount could be higher I'm which case he might not have to absorb any monetary cost to his bank account t.
If anyone can add more info to this brewing story please post.