Voinov pressured to stay?

interesting pick up there. what I picked up on is that DL and VV's agent have different ideas on where he should be next year. DL thinks that VV is AHL ready while the agent seems to want VV to go to Major Junior. Should be fun to watch this play out...

This international situation, especially with the Russian Federation is gonna become a mess, despite what the big whigs at the NHL are trying to tell everyone.

For those who don't know, there are transfer agreements with all the major hockey countries that cover stuff such as not allowing NHL teams to sign players out of teams until the end of the current season or contract. In other words, someone like Ersberg had to stay in Sweden until his contract, or the season he was playing ended, depending on the clauses of his Swedish team's contract with him.

I believe the current transfer agreements with most European countries is either expired or will expire very shortly, and they're having trouble getting new transfer agreements ironed out.

And there hasn't been a transfer agreement with Russia for like 2 years now. And with this new Russian "Superleague" (they already have a "Superleague" called the RSL) forming, the Russian teams are going to make even bigger offers to Russian players to try to get them to stay in Russia.

Some of us are old enough to remember an NHL comprised completely of North American players. I doubt we'll ever get back to that situation, but it wouldn't surprise me if the pipeline of players from the former eastern bloc countries starts drying up, especially Russia.

Plausible headline 2 years from now: Alexander Frolov signs 3 year contract to play in Russia, reportedly under pressure from the Russian Federation to do so.

Not good.

This is interesting. If Russia cannot pay to keep players they will strong arm them.

This is kinda scary...with 30 teams needing to fill out rosters, there just aren't enough NA hockey players to go around.

Avery to Dallas.

They treat their hockey players like their mail order brides. Sure they have lots of money to make them happy but why give the money when you can just threaten them. It's time for the NHL to make a major push into local development and try to get more kids from non-tradtional markets to shine. How many more So Cal fans do you think will show up if they start seeing kids from LA or OC make it in the first round drafts?

Oh, and one other way transfer agreement problems are impacting the NHL...

Remember at last year's draft how Russian winger Alexei Cherepanov, who was ranked as a top 5 pick, fell to #17 to the Rangers because everyone was afraid he'd never get to play in North America? Well, all the talk after this year's draft was that there were a LOT of European players who either got drafted lower then they should have (for example Finnish star goalie Harri Sateri was fell to the 4th round), or never got drafted at all because NHL teams were worried these players would never get out of their home countries.

Don't give into the pressure Voinov! The ultimate prize is a spot in the NHL with the Kings. On a bright note, if the RIHF suspends these kids, their team will be a lot easier to beat at the Worlds, World Jrs, and W-18 tournaments.

To be clear, the article states that the suspension only would apply if the players DON'T make the NHL. Though it's a little strong arm in it's approach, is it really all that different from the CHL's prohibition of U-20 players playing in any other league except the NHL?

if Voinov goes to major junior or ahl doesnt really matter. The thing thats matter is that we get him over to north america.

I hope Deano personally gets Voinov signed,sealed and delievered