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Originally Posted by Itse
Hmm, I wouldn't say that's even very close.
Based on Championsleague Hockey results, it's more like...
1. KHL
2. Sweden
3. Finland
>>>>>>>
5. Austria and Switzerland
7. Czech
>
8. Germany
9. Slovakia
>
10. The rest. (Denmark, Norway, Italy...)
The Finnish league especially has dropped in quality due to KHL plundering their players, but that only drops them below Sweden. Other than that there's just no comparison, Swedish and Finnish leagues are way ahead of the others in pretty much every way.
AHL is somewhere below KHL, possibly on par with Finland. |
In my completely uninformed opinion I would tend to agree.
I saw a few German games live in my time in Europe, while highly entertaining from an experience stand point, the hockey was not very good. I believe former NHLer Brandon Reid was the only name I recognized.
To add, a Canadian company was the main sponsor in Munich, cant remember the name, oil company of some kind, they had people (read attractive ladies) dressed in Mountie uniforms handing out prizes. It was awesome.