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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I don’t know how many more Russians are going to enter the league than what’s already here in terms of yearly quantity. There were more Russians in the league 20 years ago than today. The introduction of the KHL saw the majority of them leave to play there but that has normalized and it’s mostly a choice between the AHL and the KHL now.
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There was an initial surge, when the Soviet Union failed, but that faded and, like I said, the number dropped substantially for a while. It only started rising significantly again fairly recently.