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Originally Posted by Monahammer
Fedotov is literally being sent to an artic gulag as punishment. How can a team even morally justify drafting a russian at this point when it puts them in physical peril?
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I don't buy that argument at all. It's not like being drafted by Buffalo forced Mogilny to defect. It gave him a choice, one he took.
Being drafted and getting the resources from an NHL team behind them probably gives them a better chance at making it over to North America if they so chose instead of being an "unnamed" random non-NHL affiliated player trying to get here.