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Originally Posted by transplant99
Certainly better for the player than the team though. Players can still go overseas and earn money albeit at a greatly reduced amount.
Teams cant just plug in another guy who will contribute to winning now.
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I think a single player’s value to team success might be overstated here. Especially a winger.
Going overseas is not as attractive a prospect as you think, either. Players get lost over there, career wise. There are vast differences in not only gross salary, but net recovery as well. There’s insurance, living cost, considerations. There’s the fact that most of those leagues operate at a quality that’s substandard. The KHL isn’t even what it was when Gio went.