Pedro...I dont blame you for goin after Boris but if Jagr really wanted to play in NY he would of signed for less. My guess is he got a better offer closer to home, so who could blame him. Radulov wanted to play in NA. Why else would he play in QMJHL? HE got a contract offer worth 4x as much as he probably would have got after this years deal was up. Being closer to home helps, but with him it was about the money.

Boris, what are you smoking? And what exactly do you have against the common fan? If you aren't aware, the common fan pays the wages of the NHL players. Also, you can't compare NHL players wages to the wages of your common Joe. It's apples and oranges. The majority of the time, when a regular person takes a new job, it's to help him be able to better afford his house payment and car payment and the million other payments he has. NHL players always go to the highest bidder so they can have what? A fifteenth ocean front vacation home? Oh and one more thing, in case you haven't noticed, you are a "Joe Fan".

Troy, the KHL has roughly a salary cap of roughly 23 million Euros

Bob Alisat, you've got to be kidding me. This isn't slavery we're talking about, its players like Radulov that have signed a legally binding contract to a team and are trying to ignore it and do what they want. Players like Filtalov who are technically not under contract should be able to do as they please and come to N.A., I do agree. You make it sound like its a slave trade though. The IIHF is within they're rights as the legal body of hockey to do as they see fit to make sure everything that is being done is fully legal and fair to all parties involved.

The NHLPA is simply stating the obvious: the IIHF has absolutely no authority in the matter since it does not involve any of the tournaments under their purview nor any leagues whose international transfers they process. The NHL and the KHL do NOT have a signed transfer agreement, end of story. The IIHF should tend to their own business instead of acting as a schill for the NHL and it's officers and owners. Tactics like this make it seem as if the NHL is more interested in dictating terms than negotiating agreements. This should come as no shock to anybody who has been keeping track of the contracts with other leagues that the NHL has ignored up to now or recall the NHL lockout of a few years back. Fine, there was no transfer agreement then and there still is none now. At this rate, there never will be. For those NHL fans who want to rant about the player's greed or that they are overpaid cry-babies etc, get a clue. I have never met or heard of anybody who thinks that they are overpaid, but everybody thinks most other people are overpaid. That's petty jealousy. So what, NHL players make more money than most of their fans - there are plenty of people who make more money than NHL players. NHL players should play for less money than they can earn because Joe Fan wants them to? How many Joe Fans have ever passed over taking a much better job that paid much better out of loyalty to their current employer? Now if you worked selling snow tires for one company and that company actually had an agreement with every other tire company in North America that kept you from moving to a better job selling snow tires, wouldn't that tick you off? Now, along comes a transmission company that wants to expand into snow tires and they want to hire you for your talent and hard-work, and they really want you so they're willing to pay you ALOT more than the North American Tire Dealers Association has determined you can get paid. The transmission company isn't part of this monopoly - but the NATDA suddenly is telling you that you can't take this new job anyway. You ticked off yet? You feel like you should have to keep this low-paying job because Sally Downthestreet feels comfortable buying her tires from you and your boss doesn't want to tick Sally off (bad for business)- but he doesn't want to pay you what the transmission company is offering either. Along come Bob Aroundthecorner, he hears about your situation and pronounces that you are a greedy scum bag and that nobody should worry because the transmission company will quickly go out of business by paying you such high wages and good riddance to both you and the transmission company. He's a real prince, right? The NHLPA is a union that is supposed to protect the interest of its members. The NHL and its officers are NOT there to protect the interests of Joe Fan, Sally Downthestreet or anybody else but the NHL team owners. Don't ever forget that. The NHL locked its own players out a few years ago to keep salaries lower (heh, that really worked out well, eh?). Now there's a competing league that could drive average salaries up and owners don't like that - they want you to get all bigoted because it's the Russian vs the Canadians all over again. It's got nothing to do with you, Joe Fan, there's nobody on the internet (probably) debating whether you are getting paid too much or too little or should have opportunities to get paid more.