Wentworth9W
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- Dec 13, 2016
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Greetings!
Please let me know if there was a better place to post this or if I did anything wrong. I do believe this is my first topic created on all of HFBoards.
I was having a conversation with a co-worker about the Golden Knights and how it would have been nice had they been given some additional help out of the starting gate aside from access to the expansion draft full of players other teams don't mind losing that much. One interesting topic came up though. There are a bunch of guys who have left the NHL for whatever reason to go play in Europe or in the KHL. Some of them couldn't cut it in the NHL, but others left for other reasons. My question is, will players from European leagues be potentially interested in coming back to play for the Golden Knights, and is there anything that would make that not possible? I know guys like Cheechoo, Dawes, and others who are from NA but have been playing in Europe/Russia could be possibilities -- what about guys like Broc Little or Steve Moses who for whatever reason never really made any type of name for themselves here in NA but are superstars in Europe?
I know players routinely just up and leave the NHL, I assume there is nothing stopping them from doing the same in the other direction to come to the NHL right?
Edit: After rereading my post I just want to clarify that the reason we thought of this as a possibility is the addition of one new team would give those guys who couldn't quite make it on an NHL team before an opportunity just based on the numbers. If there were for instance 31 excellent #2 centers available and just 30 teams then either the player had to settle as a #3c making #3c money and #3c ice time or they could go to Europe and be a #2c there. Now that there are 31 opportunities it would just seem possible that a few of those players could think about coming back this way with those few extra opportunities available.
Thanks for reading!
Jeff.
Please let me know if there was a better place to post this or if I did anything wrong. I do believe this is my first topic created on all of HFBoards.
I was having a conversation with a co-worker about the Golden Knights and how it would have been nice had they been given some additional help out of the starting gate aside from access to the expansion draft full of players other teams don't mind losing that much. One interesting topic came up though. There are a bunch of guys who have left the NHL for whatever reason to go play in Europe or in the KHL. Some of them couldn't cut it in the NHL, but others left for other reasons. My question is, will players from European leagues be potentially interested in coming back to play for the Golden Knights, and is there anything that would make that not possible? I know guys like Cheechoo, Dawes, and others who are from NA but have been playing in Europe/Russia could be possibilities -- what about guys like Broc Little or Steve Moses who for whatever reason never really made any type of name for themselves here in NA but are superstars in Europe?
I know players routinely just up and leave the NHL, I assume there is nothing stopping them from doing the same in the other direction to come to the NHL right?
Edit: After rereading my post I just want to clarify that the reason we thought of this as a possibility is the addition of one new team would give those guys who couldn't quite make it on an NHL team before an opportunity just based on the numbers. If there were for instance 31 excellent #2 centers available and just 30 teams then either the player had to settle as a #3c making #3c money and #3c ice time or they could go to Europe and be a #2c there. Now that there are 31 opportunities it would just seem possible that a few of those players could think about coming back this way with those few extra opportunities available.
Thanks for reading!
Jeff.