Kirill Kabanov contract issues
New York Times blog has an entry on Kirill Kabanov’s contract issues in Russia (found via Gregg Drinnan’s mention). It isn’t quite clear whether he had a signed contract complete with escape clause with Spartak that was traded to Salavat who wants him to sign a new one or not. What happened in the pre-KHL days when European NHL players decided they wanted to go home to play – did their clubs have to pay the NHL team compensation? I don’t remember ever hearing that, but that doesn’t mean much :-). Seems as though the compensation for training like I believe is paid to major junior teams & others makes sense, but not until age 28.
