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Originally Posted by Vulcan
It isn't that the AHL is equal to the KHL, it's that a Euro skater may learn the Canadian style and get used to the smaller rink by spending some time there. He's a young guy and doesn't see the point of this but it shows his unwillingness to fit in which is a danger.
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I agreed as much in my other post. But the difference is far overstated. If you're good enough for the NHL, you're good enough for the NHL. Europeans who come over and play in the AHL isn't so much to get used to the "Canadian style" and smaller rinks, it's because they aren't good enough yet.
Zibanejad, Silfverberg, Brodin and Brunner came over from Europe this year. All of them played in the NHL because they were NHL players.