vorky
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- Jan 23, 2010
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Agree with russian part.It is a poor tentative, but in this format is hard for the clubs to gain something from it.
I think 'the battle' is between clubs and federations. Even in KHL, they need to comply with what's the federation interest (developing players and NT), see the season schedule, the rule for foreign players, while the clubs will want more matches, bigger revenues. The thing is that as long as most of the KHL clubs are funded with money from the state, it is hard to act as an independent.
In Europe, could be different, as you don't have the state funding the teams and it's surprising for me that the clubs with an interest for higher revenues aren't doing something concrete to create such a competition.
Bold part - it is about mentality, they "have stayed" in last century, too conservative, afraid of new ideas, dont have experiance with big business, dont want to fight with federation because would lose a job/have bad imagine in hockey community (look at guys behind Crowns and what fans/media think about them) etec. That being said, only KHL is a league/compeition which wants to "reform" euro club hockey.