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Originally Posted by Locke
Dont forget a few little things.
Theres a reason why players love playing in the NHL, its the best league in the world, but theres a cost to that.
In Russia the players arent taxed, he likely doesnt have or need a Russian agent, so Ilya will walk away with likely every ruble of that contract.
In North America you take 10% off the top to the agent and likely somewhere in the neighbourhood of 30%-40% in taxes, then theres escrow, etc, so for him to walk away with the same number of rubles in his pocket you'd have to roughly double that number.
Tells me that he was probably looking for a deal in the $7M-$8M range and I for one am glad he did not find that here.
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That's true, but in Russia they may decide to just stop paying you whereas that money is guaranteed in The NHL. The KHL is almost completely financed by oil
And Gas corps who essentially are forced by the government to pay to run a team if they want property rights.
I think the current state of the oil and gas industry and teams welching on salaries is why we see a lot of the big KHL stars starting to trickle back.
Kovalchuk was probably too big of star for Putin's ego to lose. Someone was probably voluntold by the government to pay him upfront.