Triple world hockey champion Alexei Tereshchenko told that an agreement was needed between the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) and the National Hockey League (NHL) on compensation for the player’s transfer.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin asked Russian Hockey Federation (RFH) President Vladislav Tretyak and the Russian Sports Ministry to address the situation in which Russian hockey players go to play in foreign leagues at a very young age. . The head of state said that “hockey businessmen take children from sports schools and drag them abroad”, “there is a lot of money, the damage is obvious to us”, it’s “a business, and not always regulated and not always noble.”
— We need an agreement between the NHL and the KHL, because now Russian clubs and academies no longer receive a penny to move a hockey player to America. This must be compensated. And no gentleman’s contracts are necessary here, but only precisely defined compensation rules. Why does football have this, but hockey doesn’t? At least academies and children’s coaches should receive payments, that would be fair. Ultimately, Vladimir Putin conveyed this idea, because the situation is no longer going anywhere,” Tereshchenko told .
Source : MatchTV
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