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I totally missed that Barys and Sibir is playing eachother. The most intersting matchup left, in my mind.
The only real way is they move to Russia until the end of their season and play their home games there.According to YLE's "insider source", Jokerit season is 99% sure to be over. Jokerit head of communications denied this. But as I posted earlier, I don't see it being possible to do with the travel limits.
The only real way is they move to Russia until the end of their season and play their home games there.
I really don't think they would just walk away from the team, performance bonuses and all that just because they can't be without their families for, at very most, 1 month. I can see the club itself not willing to go with a complicated scheme like this but the players, really don't think they would be a problem. It's really not a long period of time and most likely, it's no longer than a long away trip during the regular season.I don't see the players willing to be apart from their families.
I really don't think they would just walk away from the team, performance bonuses and all that just because they can't be without their families for, at very most, 1 month. I can see the club itself not willing to go with a complicated scheme like this but the players, really don't think they would be a problem. It's really not a long period of time and most likely, it's no longer than a long away trip during the regular season.
CSKA: Nesterov-Grigorenko-Kempe-Vey-Kaprizov
SKA: Bengtsson-Burdasov-Tkachyov-Kemppainen-Barabanov
Avangard: Franson-Shirokov-Shumakov-McMillan-Beck
For Ak Bars it's: Virtanen-A. Galimov-Azevedo-Cormier-Petrov and Yarullin-Galiev-E. Galimov-Tikhonov-Frattin
I guess the option would be relocating the home games to St. Petersburg as well. Minimised travel and easily fixed logistics wise.
But then again, it might not be the best PR move from the team
Post scriptum: but jesus christ it would be anticlimactic to leave walk over in a conference semifinal, especially if only one of eight teams do this
I guess this is the pros of running a team (or league for that matter) that is not gate driven – you could continue to play the whole playoffs without any attendance as teams aren't making a profit anyways
Love those personifications, Jokerit, SYu and Sibir especially.. No idea why CSKA is angry horsie though
Horse being a symbol for the army, pigs from the nickname meat which comes from the colour red and old ties to meat packaging industries.Well, CSKA have always been nicknamed as "horses", similarly how Spartak are also known as "pigs" (they prefer to use the gladiator as their symbol in the KHL for some reason though).
He plays under 15 minutes in PO.Wikstrand isn't on either of ak bars powerplay? Odd.
Horse being a symbol for the army, pigs from the nickname meat which comes from the colour red and old ties to meat packaging industries.
He plays under 15 minutes in PO.
Actually, I misspoke, he plays 17.18 on average. Anyway, he is pretty good player but his PP time got eaten by Virtanen and at even strength, Ak Bars pretty much plays their Ds evenly. He is by no means a bad player though.Oh. I thought he was good lol. My mistake.
Teams are heavily subsidised by big (Russian) corporations. For example, Nornickel is Jokerit's main sponsor and minority owner. Gazprom sponsors SKA Saint Petersburg while their subsidiary Gazprom Export sponsors Avangard Omsk, Dinamo Riga and Vityaz Podolsk. The oil company Rosneft is the majority owner and main sponsor of CSKA Moscow and VTB Bank is the main sponsor of both the hockey and soccer section of Dynamo Moscow. Russian Railways sponsor Lokomotiv Yaroslavl.How do they make their money? As opposed to nhl?
Isn't the IIHF making their official statement in about a week? Seems weird and badly planned to cancel the playoffs halfway through the second round in that caseThe speculation is that KHL will cancel the season after IIHF cancels the Worlds.
Actually, I misspoke, he plays 17.18 on average. Anyway, he is pretty good player but his PP time got eaten by Virtanen and at even strength, Ak Bars pretty much plays their Ds evenly. He is by no means a bad player though.
Virtanen is a more offensively skilled player though, hands down. That's why they got him to begin with. Stats aren't always everything. Especially the KHL.Virtanen who had 2 points in 20 games this season over a guy who had 32 points in 50 games? I don't get it...