KHL Trades, Rumors and Free Agent Talk Part 4

[ozo]

Zinetulla Bilyaletdinov: "According to my information, Ilya Nikulin also going to the NHL"

http://www.sports.ru/hockey/1031906777.html

And what about the "I want to live closer to my wife" story?

 

[Salavat Yulaev]

And what about the "I want to live closer to my wife" story?

maybe his wife changed residence?

 

[ozo]

maybe his wife changed residence?

She couldn't move to Kazan even when his his husband spent last 10 years there, so it is very unlikely to say the least. In reality it looks like no one really wants to meet his wage demands in Western conference at this stage of his career...

 

[SoundAndFury]

Yeah, obviously nobody offered him a good enough contract in the KHL and rightfully so since he most likely isn't worth the contract he thinks is good enough for him. So it just might be he decided to go to some NHL camp on a try-out. No way he gets an NHL contract though, there's just no way.

My guess is he lowers his demands in autumn and signs the deal with something like Vityaz or Spartak, much like Daniil Markov did back in the day.

 

[cska78]

Is rights still belong to Winnipeg? The guy is not good any more, what NHL?

 

[SoundAndFury]

Is rights still belong to Winnipeg? The guy is not good any more, what NHL?

No, not anymore. His stats, experience and "intangibles" are good enough for someone to give him a try-out but as I've said, no way he gets a contract.

 

[cska78]

imho, he's done.

 

[Salavat Yulaev]

I think that Nikulin is still ok for the level of a half of KHL teams. Ak Bars is an elite club (whether you like it or you don't)
"It's all about money" (c). If he is not that expensive now why not?

 

[Salavat Yulaev]

She couldn't move to Kazan even when his his husband spent last 10 years there, so it is very unlikely to say the least. In reality it looks like no one really wants to meet his wage demands in Western conference at this stage of his career...

there is info that he and Arturs Kulda have been seen at Latvian "Mogo" club

http://www.championat.com/hockey/ne...trenirujutsja-vmeste-s-chempionom-latvii.html

 

[punchonico99]

Jonathon Blum is rumoured to Admiral.

Link: http://rsport.ru/hockey/20150807/852352258.html

http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=11597

 

[Peter25]

Jonathon Blum is rumoured to Admiral.

Link: http://rsport.ru/hockey/20150807/852352258.html

http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=11597

Not a rumor anymore. Blum has signed with Admiral.

 

[punchonico99]

Martin St.Pierre is rumoured to Barys now.

Link: http://yvision.kz/post/527902

Vitali Atyushov is rumoured to Amur.

Link: http://www.sports.ru/hockey/1032018691.html

Michal Sersen has signed a one year extension with Slovan.

 

[SCBdude]

Martin St.Pierre is rumoured to Barys now.

Confirmed on Eliteprospects. One year deal.

 

[Peter25]

Finnish referee Antti Boman will be officiating in the KHL this season.

 

[SoundAndFury]

With season being so close I realised Sibir doesn't have a legit 1C yet. To be more exact, nothing even remotely similar to one. So people who follow KHL closely, what are other teams with such glaring weaknesses?

Admiral's goaltending can be counted in I guess although I'm not even sure if they plan to sign someone else.

 

[cska78]

Sibir has Fefelov, 'nough said

 

[QnebO]

Finnish referee Antti Boman will be officiating in the KHL this season.

Really? Not sure what to think about this. I like KHL-school reffing. Make-up-calls done right are a good thing, letting players play is a good thing. Not calling big penalties if you aren't really sure, even better. Mistakes happen time to time of course to any refs. I hope Boman doesn't try to bring the Liiga ref culture, but adapts the KHL.

In pre-season I spotted that Finnish refs in some of the games weren't really on the icing culture in KHL. There were few that should've been waved off by KHL standards so far. NHL and KHL have bit better flow because they wave of slightly more icings. Penalties were quite OK, but couple of bad calls against Sibir in the last game.

 

[punchonico99]

Lubomir Visnovsky is rumoured to Slovan.

Link: http://sport.aktuality.sk/c/191467/lubomir-visnovsky-mieri-spat-do-slovana/

Sasa Martinovic is training with Eisbaren Berlin.

Link: http://www.bz-berlin.de/berlin-spor...sa-martinovic-trainiert-bei-den-eisbaeren-mit

Belarusian left-winger Anatoly Protasenya (who also has Czech citizenship) is getting a try-out with Slovan.

Link: http://www.hokejportal.net/?q=clanok/slovan-skusa-bieloruskeho-utocnika-protasenu/60236

http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=17667

 

[Vanjito]

Milan Jurčina signs for MedveÅ¡čak

http://www.medvescak.com/khl/slovacki-olimpijac-i-nhl-ovac-pojacao-obranu-medvescaka-no1845

 

[punchonico99]

Ivan Baranka has signed a deal with Rogle BK.

Link: http://www.roglebk.se/artikel/67979/

Artur Gavrus is back with Dinamo Minsk.

Link: http://hcdinamo.by/s-vozvrashheniem-artur/

 

[Salavat Yulaev]

Nikolay Antropov's agent said that he may come back to Barys.

 

[ozo]

Nikolay Antropov's agent said that he may come back to Barys.

So you wanna say NHL teams arent lining up to sign him?

 

[SoundAndFury]

So you wanna say NHL teams arent lining up to sign him?

I think he might have missed the chance to play for Barys too, they will just sign Stephen Weiss instead

Seriously though, it's pretty crazy how many good players are still left unsigned.

 

[Peter25]

Sport fans are really pissed at losing Gavrus because he has been their best player in training matches.

 

[SoundAndFury]

Sport fans are really pissed at losing Gavrus because he has been their best player in training matches.

Yeah, I have no idea how it made sense for them to let him go like that. Pretty sure he would have broken out in Liiga, now they got Spilar instead who will score like 15 points.