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Originally Posted by flamesfan1297
They would just stay in their home country and not sign in the NHL at all. Or only sign 3 year deals then play every fourth year in Europe or Russia
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I agree. Lots of people use the "well he can just sign in the KHL/Europe" and make a ton of money but the facts are that the KHL can't pay these guys anywhere near what they earn here.
They also have ####ty travel schedules compared to North America and the best league in the world is the NHL by a wide margin. Kovalchuk is the only star player to return to Europe and he did it after making approx $100M playing here.