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Originally Posted by kehatch
All European born players have a similar flight risk. How many actually take the big KHL contract. More unsubstantiated fear-mongering. Most players want to play in the best league in the world. Plus the conditions in the NHL are much better. The KHL is no where near the threat some people make it out to be.
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I was actually looking at a complete list of Russian/ex-USSR NHL players going all the way back to Sergei Priakin, and there are actually more NHL players having longer careers in the NHL than there was back before the KHL.
Especially back in the 1990s, it looked like there was an even bigger flight risk:
http://www.hockey-reference.com/friv...cgi?country=SU