Monday, July 07, 2008
Did you notice?
Hockey hardly makes waves in its off-season outside of the hotbeds: Canada and Detroit, of course, plus the hardcore, bedrock fans in the other locales. So if you live in neither of those places, and you are not a hardcore hockey fan, you may not have noticed.
Jaromir Jagr signed with Russian hockey club Avangard Omsk. The terms of the contract were not disclosed. The club plays in Siberia. Siberia!
The Clarion has been saying for some time now that the price of fossil fuels was going to enable Russian sports teams to raid Western talent with impunity (ever since we read about Diana Taurasi.)
Labels: college basketball, hockey, sports, Sports Economics
Comments:
I don't care how much black gold Putin is digging out from under the tundra, there's no way the New York Rangers (who will open their 2008-09 season in Prague, Czech Republic) could get outbid for their aging superstar unless they just didn't want him back.
I dunno. There is no salary cap the Russian Super League.
Siberneft's (the owner of Jagr's current team) annual sales were estimated at $8.89 billion in 2004. And the price of fossil fuels has headed a little north since then...
Cablevision (the owner of Jarg's old team) annual sales were $6.5 billion in 2007.
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Siberneft's (the owner of Jagr's current team) annual sales were estimated at $8.89 billion in 2004. And the price of fossil fuels has headed a little north since then...
Cablevision (the owner of Jarg's old team) annual sales were $6.5 billion in 2007.
