MCeh Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 Recently outside of hockey, Toronto Raptors GM Bryan Colangelo quite unorthodoxly signed Maccabi Tel Aviv star Anthony Parker. Should any NHL GM be without their sought after UFA, or find their prospects still too green, the various European pro-leagues might be the place to look: Sportsnet.ca's "No Eurotrash Here" Article - - - - - Might our European HW members be able to provide insight into a player or two? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chips Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 With the revamped, redesigned, new-NHL; I would agree that there now exists a good possibility that players from europe could enter our market via free agency. But for that to happen, teams need to pay up for players to make a life style change. Often most of these players by this point in their careers have established a name, reputation and life style. Leaving all that behind could be too costly to match.€ As well, moving across the pond is that must tougher now wth the cap system. Teams would rather bring rookie's in cheap make sure they are the real deal before giving them the now very precious dollars under their caps in the bigs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCeh Posted July 18, 2006 Author Share Posted July 18, 2006 (edited) Top-10 Russian Super League Free Agents (with commentary): http://www.rushockey.com/events.php?i=sl&a...news&id=503 Disregard former Penguin Alexei Morozov: "I am staying in Russia for the next three years." Edited July 18, 2006 by MCeh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTH Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 We don't have room for them but if we did, I would definitely give a Euro a shot. I've always liked Maxim Sushinski, for example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chips Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 Looks like the Russians have yet to sign the player transfer agreement. Now the NHL says with or without the deal the NHL will sign players to its league next year. Does anyone understand this enough to explain it? Why have an agreement if we can sign them anyway? full article. http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/article.jsp...717_145932_4500 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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