Several locked out NHL players headed to Europe
When the league locked out their players at midnight on Sept. 15, some of them signed up to join the KHL and other European leagues overseas the day after.
When the league locked out their players at midnight on Sept. 15, some of them signed up to join the KHL and other European leagues overseas the day after.
Although a lockout may benefit the quality of play in Canadian major junior hockey in the short-term due to the influx of more mature, NHL-ready talent, a work stoppage in the “show” is not welcome in the eyes of many CHL executives.
The effects from the deaths of former Toronto Maple Leafs Igor Korolev and Alexander Karpovtsev, who were killed in a tragic plane crash in Russia Wednesday, rocked the hockey world. It is the fourth calamity…