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Originally Posted by getbak
I'm sure some people will freak out about that and call him a whiny entitled Russian, but it's really no different than if you draft MacKinnon or Jones or any other CHL player.
If they don't make your NHL roster, you have to send them back to junior, and once you send them back, you can't recall them (except in a rare emergency situation like the Flames did with Sven in 2012).
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If anything, the KHL would be a couple steps above the CHL, so it might be more beneficial to send him back to the KHL vs. the CHL.