A change of scenery may be exactly what it takes to kick start a career.
For all the champions, beautiful goals, NHL dreams, and shooting stars, there is also that one disappointment. A team that underachieves all season, a player who signed a fat contract isn’t producing, or the prospect that just doesn’t seem to be able to take his game to the next level, after all.
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Trades, plays, and automobiles
Dec 14, 2008 by RistoP | 1 assist | Europe | Send to a buddy
Silver lining
Dec 04, 2008 by RistoP | Comment here | Europe | Send to a buddy
The new European club competition, Champions Hockey League, got the clubs' and fans' attention fast when the IIHF announced that the league would have the biggest prize purse ever in European hockey, ten million euro in total.
The money has been front and center in a lot of stories that have been written about the CHL, as a motive for the players to play hard, even when the team's chances to advance to the semifinal have gone.
So, it was nice to see that a team can decide to tank a game even when there's 50 000 euros on the line. Money isn't everything.
The money has been front and center in a lot of stories that have been written about the CHL, as a motive for the players to play hard, even when the team's chances to advance to the semifinal have gone.
So, it was nice to see that a team can decide to tank a game even when there's 50 000 euros on the line. Money isn't everything.
Saku the Chairman
Dec 01, 2008 by RistoP | Comment here | Europe | Send to a buddy
Here's something I wrote for the IIHF.com.
HELSINKI – Kalervo Kummola, the chairman of the Finnish Ice Hockey Federation, has been the chairman of the federation since 1997, but his career in Finnish top hockey can be traced back to the mid-1970s when he served as the CEO of the newly-founded SM-liiga - and doubling as the CEO of the federation for a a couple of years in the early 1980s.
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HELSINKI – Kalervo Kummola, the chairman of the Finnish Ice Hockey Federation, has been the chairman of the federation since 1997, but his career in Finnish top hockey can be traced back to the mid-1970s when he served as the CEO of the newly-founded SM-liiga - and doubling as the CEO of the federation for a a couple of years in the early 1980s.
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