There are basically two parties in the KHL - one wants to shut the draft down for reasons quite obvious:
- we raise the players, put forth an effort and you poach the ones we can't protect/sign for comparable money
other:
- we don't want to spend for quality dorms, ice time, coaches, inventory for kids - where 1 out of a 100 at best becomes a KHL player, we'd rather take our chances on unprotected/unsigned/disgruntled juniors.
Come to think of it:
CSKA, Ak Bars (to a degree, as they poach kids all over the country Togliati being the biggest victim), Traktor, Magnitka (also a lot of kids poaching around Ural area), Lokomotiv, Avto, Dinamo develop decent players. Torpedo has put themselves on the map a little bit and Severstal does come up some quality players, but they can never keep them.
Khimik and Lada schools have been ravaged, Atlant started producing some players (mostly poached through draft), but since the KHL team ceased to exist - I don't expect anything coming out of there. Tyumen is poached on kids level by neighbors - since they don't have a KHL team. Vityaz' is producing some players - but I don't understand the connection between them and their youth teams clearly.
Ska and Salavat are building their youth up, but there are not too many players of quality coming out of there yet.
Then there's a whole bunch of teams having no history and no youth development - for them draft is a chance to snag something, even if to stock an MHL team.
