Unpleasant Financials for one Finnish Hockey Team

cubanpuckstopper — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:38:09 -0000

Right from the IIHF site

" ESPOO, Finland – Champions Hockey League semifinalist and SM-liiga runner-up Espoo Blues is struggling with financial problems, and the club has encouraged its players to look for employment elsewhere"

http://www.iihf.com/home-of-hockey/news/news-singleview/article/blues-starts-fire-sale.html?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=955&cHash=3f2fa9b492

This site says similar, loosely translatesd, http://www.mtv3.fi/urheilu/jaakiekko/uutiset.shtml/arkistot/jaakiekko/2009/06/891423 (by its nature, Finnish does not translate well on machine translators, i.e. Google language tools)

The Espoo Blues are a significant team in SM-liiga

Espoo is hockey hotspot, and home to international goalie coach Jukka Ropponen http://www.goaliepro.com/en/

The economy has whacked everyone, but to my knowledge this is the first I have heard of a team telling its players to find work elsewhere, especially during free agency season in the KHL.

CPS

Bloomberg on the KHL

cubanpuckstopper — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:24:29 -0000

Bloomberg, the business people, on the KHL, the hockey people.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601077&sid=aZ7cLyu.Wkvo

Not everything the KHL did worked this past season, but season number one is on the books.

From the article linked above the statement below leaves a smile on my face, for a number of reasons.

The sponsors and owners understand that hockey in Russia is not just business, it’s of great social importance,” Medvedev said. “It’s not subject to the ups and downs of economic life

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Unpleasant Financials for one Finnish Hockey Team

Bloomberg on the KHL