GK: So you feel that if the CSKA prospects stayed here and played through your junior system, they would be more likely to go to the NHL—versus leaving directly for North America at 17 or 18?
SF: I know that they can get a better hockey education here versus [in North America]—because there, after one year, the base is gone. You have to find who to train with, good trainers, where to eat and where to sleep. They are not professionals—parents, agents are gone. [Agents] give the kids some standard lip service, cheer them on, and that’s it.
Statistically, most of these guys disappear. They try to come back, but lose everything in two years.
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