Tenkkapoo
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- Jul 28, 2020
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I have watched the KHL more or less closely since it began in the 2008-2009 season. I also followed Russian Superleague a couple of seasons before that.
It is my opinion that the level of play in the KHL has deteriorated from what it was back then. This opinion is based on the eye-test and by looking at the rosters of KHL teams back then and now.
The game looked better and more organized and skillful ten years ago than it is now. I often get bored watching the KHL nowadays. There are too many players on the ice who should not be playing in this league.
Another aspect lacking nowadays in the KHL is star-appeal. Whereas ten years ago I got to watch Jaromir Jagr, Alexander Radulov, Alexey Morozov, Danis Zaripov, Sergei Mozyakin, Alexey Yashin, Viktor Kozlov, Ilya NIkulin and others, nowadays I have to settle for... Teemu Hartikainen. Nothing against Hartikainen who is a great player, but he should not be tbe best player in the KHL.
Ten years ago the KHL was filled with great and very good Russian players. Nowadays I hardly find any. This is a league dominated by middle-level foreign players who come from the AHL or Sweden or Switzerland.
The KHL was supposed to bring the level of Russian hockey to another level. But the level of hockey in Russia is now worse than before the KHL was started. The project has failed.
It is my opinion that the level of play in the KHL has deteriorated from what it was back then. This opinion is based on the eye-test and by looking at the rosters of KHL teams back then and now.
The game looked better and more organized and skillful ten years ago than it is now. I often get bored watching the KHL nowadays. There are too many players on the ice who should not be playing in this league.
Another aspect lacking nowadays in the KHL is star-appeal. Whereas ten years ago I got to watch Jaromir Jagr, Alexander Radulov, Alexey Morozov, Danis Zaripov, Sergei Mozyakin, Alexey Yashin, Viktor Kozlov, Ilya NIkulin and others, nowadays I have to settle for... Teemu Hartikainen. Nothing against Hartikainen who is a great player, but he should not be tbe best player in the KHL.
Ten years ago the KHL was filled with great and very good Russian players. Nowadays I hardly find any. This is a league dominated by middle-level foreign players who come from the AHL or Sweden or Switzerland.
The KHL was supposed to bring the level of Russian hockey to another level. But the level of hockey in Russia is now worse than before the KHL was started. The project has failed.
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