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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Andrei Kostitsyn, Viktor Tikhonov and Ivan Vishnevskiy are other 1st rounders that left for the KHL.
Between 2003 and 2008, 5/9 Russians (not inlcuding Cherepanov who died) drafted in the 1st round now play in the KHL.
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How many of them played in the NHL?
The vast majority of the folk who come from the old soviet republics (because a lot of the guys that you're identifying as Russian aren't actually Russian) come over to play in the NHL. Some of them effectively bust and go back but who cares about the ones that bust? The guys that are really good (Malkin, Ovie, Gonchar, etc. etc.) stick around. Hell, a lot of guys that are just average stick around for a good long while.
I mean really... Ivan Vishnevskiy? He of all of 5 NHL games? Viktor Tikhonov? The guy who barely got 0.50PPG in the AHL? Hardly a deterent IMO.