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Originally Posted by WilderPegasus
I can understand that the Russian teams in the KHL are owned by billionaires who don't care about pouring millions into their teams. But where are the other suckers in Europe coming from? And now talk of expanding into Asia?
Like I said, I'm curious about how much they're getting for an expansion franchise. Either it's a big ponzi scheme or they're hoping to one day be the dominant hockey league in the world by dominating markets in Europe and Asia. They're spending now in the hopes of making big money down the road.
If there are owners like that over there why aren't there more owners like that here in North America? Or maybe they aren't just throwing money away. Billionaires generally didn't become billionaires by being fools.
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My conspiracy theory is that Putin has ordered the Billionaires to underwrite the KHL. If they don't they will quickly become unbillionaires. Most of these billionaires were built of of bribing the right people as the soviet union fell so now having to spend some of that money for Russian pride my just be a cost of doing business in russia.