Confirmed Signing with Link: F Ilya Kovalchuk signed 4-y deal with SKA

[MartysBetterThanYou]

Why am I getting the vibe here that you all are almost rooting for the NHL to fail and the KHL to take its place based on your enthusiastic reactions to a player jumping ship...

 

[BalticWarrior]

Why am I getting the vibe here that you all are almost rooting for the NHL to fail and the KHL to take its place based on your enthusiastic reactions to a player jumping ship...

Oh stop this whining will you? Why should khl fans be sad that a player like kovalchuk comes over?some nhl fans feel too entitled.

 

[Jussi]

Oh stop this whining will you? Why should khl fans be sad that a player like kovalchuk comes over?

Becasue it widens the gap between the haves and have nots even more? E.g. I've never taken any joy if a rival of Jokerit signed a big name player in SM-Liiga. I think people are wondering, do you support your team or the league?

 

[BalticWarrior]

Becasue it widens the gap between the haves and have nots even more? E.g. I've never taken any joy if a rival of Jokerit signed a big name player in SM-Liiga. I think people are wondering, do you support your team or the league?

It doesnt matter. Ska is gonna be a top team with or without kovy. And i hate ska,but i was explaining why some posters are happy.

 

[bdawg1989*]

Oh stop this whining will you? Why should khl fans be sad that a player like kovalchuk comes over?some nhl fans feel too entitled.

Entitled ? NHL IS still the best league in the world, by far. Like it or not. Kovy leaving aint gonna change that.

 

[Vicente]

Becasue it widens the gap between the haves and have nots even more? E.g. I've never taken any joy if a rival of Jokerit signed a big name player in SM-Liiga. I think people are wondering, do you support your team or the league?

1) What gap? Look at Russian hockey history. SKA have never won a league title since creation of the club in the 1950s...

2) The stronger the league, the more good players also for your teams. But off course you seem to like rather watching 14 low-level teams against each other than 28 good ones with some of them being at a very high level.

 

[Vicente]

Why am I getting the vibe here that you all are almost rooting for the NHL to fail and the KHL to take its place based on your enthusiastic reactions to a player jumping ship...

This is absolutely hilarious. People are happy to see 1 (ONE) top player in their league for a couple of years and NHL fans already freak out. What about Malkin, Ovechkin, Bryzgalov etc.? Shouldn't they be playing in Russia?

 

[Pominville Knows]

Entitled ? NHL IS still the best league in the world, by far. Like it or not. Kovy leaving aint gonna change that.

You are correct, but at the same time i dont think NJ-fans saw this coming becouse they do in fact feel entitled. Before it was Radulov that was the biggest name, and people in NA was like laughing about it saying he's not elite and so forth. As a matter of fact, now when listing the KHL stars i find it quite exciting actually.

<Beautiful trophy as well, the Gagarin Cup.

 

[russianhockey]

hockeyfans.ch reports that kovy will earn 60 mio. $, that means 15 mio. $ a year.

source: http://www.hockeyfans.ch/news/meldung/33822

its a lil bit strange, because there is still no source from russia that reported about his salary. so where they got the information from?

EDIT: when somebody got a source, pls post it here...

 

[Jussi]

1) What gap? Look at Russian hockey history. SKA have never won a league title since creation of the club in the 1950s...

2) The stronger the league, the more good players also for your teams. But off course you seem to like rather watching 14 low-level teams against each other than 28 good ones with some of them being at a very high level.

14 teams in the 3rd best league in Europe, most of whom could beat every German DEL team. Is it really hard to understand people prefer to watch teams from their own country, teams they know and have an emotional attachment instead foreign teams in a leauge with no historical or emotional attachment?

 

[vorky]

Ilya will get similar money as he would get in next 4yrs from NJD, Medvedev said for SovSport or Sport-Express (dont remember). He called 50-60M USD as not true info

 

[ozo]

Is it really hard to understand people prefer to watch teams from their own country, teams they know and have an emotional attachment instead foreign teams in a leauge with no historical or emotional attachment?

Five seconds ago you claimed to be Manchester United fan, no? Anyway, you can watch and enjoy KHL while attending your local teams games as well.

 

[Pominville Knows]

14 teams in the 3rd best league in Europe, most of whom could beat every German DEL team. Is it really hard to understand people prefer to watch teams from their own country, teams they know and have an emotional attachment instead foreign teams in a leauge with no historical or emotional attachment?

Yes i do understand the importance of emotional and historical attachments when looking at sports. It's just that for me personally i really more would enjoy watching a swedish team compete against other teams from internationally historical places to say the least, then other SHL cities. I mean were talking CSKA Moskow, Bratislava, Praha, Helsinki here, not Jönköping, Karlstad and Luleå. Do you have any grasp about international hockey history, bordering on politics during the Cold War? We got great places in Europe ready to be explored.

 

[Atas2000]

Entitled ? NHL IS still the best league in the world, by far. Like it or not. Kovy leaving aint gonna change that.

As long as you fear to prove it by playing KHL teams you can stay in your denial wonderland. We are ok with that.

 

[Shrimper]

I wrote some stuff about Kovy joining SKA and other stuff. http://goo.gl/dEceV

Feedback welcome. Enjoy.

Not as into Russian/KHL as I used to be but will try to watch more games this year. Try to find a team to support as well.

 

[Vicente]

14 teams in the 3rd best league in Europe, most of whom could beat every German DEL team. Is it really hard to understand people prefer to watch teams from their own country, teams they know and have an emotional attachment instead foreign teams in a leauge with no historical or emotional attachment?

In case of misunderstanding. This was no attack on SM-liiga in general as I like the league as much as I do like any big hockey league. But you clearly seem to prefer a lower level of SM-liiga hockey instead of some of the teams signing big stars (I know this is rather theoratical) and being a little better even than the rest.

I guess you wouldn't be against having Ovechkin, Malkin, Kovalchuk, Stamkos, Bäckström like players in every SM-liiga team tough

PS:

I go to matches of Kölner Haier (DEL) but also watch NHL/KHL online. In my case it's a mixture of liking to see big stars in other leagues + different ways of playing hockey. If there was a chance to watch that stuff I would even give SM-liiga a chance and watch a couple of games.

 

[TheStroker]

welcome back to the motherland Ilya!

 

[vorky]

 

[vorky]

http://www.ska.ru/gallery/ru/showall/864.html#wide


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[Jussi]

Five seconds ago you claimed to be Manchester United fan, no? Anyway, you can watch and enjoy KHL while attending your local teams games as well.

Sorry for this REAAAALLLY late reply to this post, but when there's no domestic/local (football) team to support, you tend to pick up something you're more exposed to.

 

[Bure]

http://www.ska.ru/gallery/ru/showall/864.html#wide


(starting since min 6-7)

Klass, would be cool to see in person

 

[russianhockey]