Karlovy Vary almost there

So, looks like at least one non-former-soviet-republic team is gonna play in the KHL next season.

Yesterday, the KHL and Karlovy Vary(Czech Republic) signed a document of playing intention that makes Karlovy Vart a potential member of the league. According to the Czech representatives, they have already met all the requirements except for the season budget and payroll. Right now they dont have enough funds to get above the salary floor. They expect to resolve this situation in following weeks.

Also, SKA are gonna play in Czech Republic against Karlovy Vary on November 7 to present the KHL to Czech folks. Add the fact that Dinamo Riga are gonna play Ak Bars in Finland pretty soon, and looks like the KHL is enhancing its borders. :handclap:

awesome news!
link?

Awesome!

Great news for the KHL!

GREAT! Another tiny step towards a global league.

weeee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HC_Energie_Karlovy_Vary
finished the preliminary team page

link(Russian) (http://www.championat.ru/hockey/news-147390.html)

hard to imagine how this should work. Karlovy Vary is near Germany, not that far from Munich!
The next Member of KHL Riga is 1000km (600 miles) away. Moscow is 2000km (1200 miles) away. OK in NHL you have also such distances but not every Game.

Khabarovsk is 8000km away (5000 miles).

hard to imagine how this should work. Karlovy Vary is near Germany, not that far from Munich!
The next Member of KHL Riga is 1000km (600 miles) away. Moscow is 2000km (1200 miles) away. OK in NHL you have also such distances but not every Game.

Khabarovsk is 8000km away (5000 miles).
They're doing divisions on a geographical basis starting from next year.
It will probably limit travel to one Asian road trip for the westernmost teams.

Dallas is 600 miles away from the nearest NHL franchise, Vancouver, besides Calgary and Edmonton, has to travel almost a thousand miles, and they are all doing fine. Plus besides Riga you also have Dinamo Minsk in the area.
Slitty, where did you hear that they are rebasing the divisions next year? I hope it is true, though.

Slitty, where did you hear that they are rebasing the divisions next year? I hope it is true, though.
I don't specifically remember, to be honest. It's something Medvedev has publicly mentioned on a couple occasions though. Here's a link (albeit shabby) for the doubters: http://www.championat.ru/hockey/news-110325.html

from Jan Marek interview:

- It is expected that Karlovy Vary will join KHL next season. What do you think about that? In one hand, our league(KHL) is better than Czech, but in the other hand, it can possibly create a breakdown in Extraliga.

- There were 4 Karlovy Vary players in our national team. They told me that they would surely play in KHL next year. And that they are going to create two teams. One will stay in Extraliga, and the other will join KHL.

Karlovy Vary(russian version) want to be a small Czech national team. The club board wants to invite many czech players who have proven themselves in Russia and Europe.

so karlovy vary wont be joining, a new expansion team will be of the same name?

they were saying that they will keep two teams, one in czech league and one in the KHL

one being the original, the other being a khl expansion, no?

one being the original, the other being a khl expansion, no?
:nod:

bailed out today, which is only reasonable. They are not capable of financing themselves and have Russians sponsor them would be obscene..

Well, OK, bailed out, let it be. Would have been interesting, but not gonna cry rivers

That really sucks, any chance there will be any other foreign teams joining the league that actually have financial support?

Hardly this season, everything must be set not later than May 15th

It would've been bad news for the Czech Extraliga if Karlovy Vary went...

bailed out today, which is only reasonable. They are not capable of financing themselves and have Russians sponsor them would be obscene..

Why not? They own pretty much everything else in Karlovy Vary, whose international airport have only two regular routes: St. Petersburg and Moscow. It must be the most Russian-dominated city in Western Europe.

cheers

Why not? They own pretty much everything else in Karlovy Vary, whose international airport have only two regular routes: St. Petersburg and Moscow. It must be the most Russian-dominated city in Western Europe.

cheers

I´m not sure whether I´m right, but this might be the reason: The Czechs (and Slovaks in times of CSSR) have always used hockey as a way to show their disagreement with CCCP/Russia and I believe it might be kind of a humiliation for them to have Russian sponsors for a hockey club, it might be a thing of dignity, but I might not be right at all.

Sure, my point was more that Karlovy Vary is a special case. This is a famous spa city, pretty glamorous, and there's been massive Russian investment there over the past two decades. A lot of it is Russian owned, there's a big Russian colony there and rich Russian tourists pack the streets, the restaurants all have menus in Russian. It's as close to a little piece of Russia inside Western Europe as you'll ever get. So if the KV hockey team was russian-sponsored, it would just be business as usual. :)

cheers

Sure, my point was more that Karlovy Vary is a special case. This is a famous spa city, pretty glamorous, and there's been massive Russian investment there over the past two decades. A lot of it is Russian owned, there's a big Russian colony there and rich Russian tourists pack the streets, the restaurants all have menus in Russian. It's as close to a little piece of Russia inside Western Europe as you'll ever get. So if the KV hockey team was russian-sponsored, it would just be business as usual. :)

cheers

Seriously, if hockey was bussiness in Czech republic or Slovakia then we would have maximally 5 hockey teams in both countries.;)

It might be different with the Czechs in other things, but in hockey they surely want to beware their dignity. But as I said I might not be right and there are some other isses with the czech federation, the city or the othe rteams.

http://www.thestar.com/videozone/554239

http://www.thestar.com/videozone/554239

I´m sorry but what does this have to do with KV? Most of the things shown on the video work the same in Czech republic/Slovakia anyway.

EDIT: Looking at some other articles, there´s a lot of anit-KHL and pro-American based stuff, so why do you even bother posting here on the KHL boards?

http://www.thestar.com/videozone/554239
And what?) They are shows Moscow arenas which have always had low attendance and fans (football ultras) fights.
Here is another KHL Arena: full attendance, great support, perfect show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w97vxeyz21c

And what?) They are shows Moscow arenas which have always had low attendance and fans (football ultras) fights.
Here is another KHL Arena: full attendance, great support, perfect show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w97vxeyz21c

Let it go, it´s just a provocateur, who has no idea about the European sports culture.

I´m sorry but what does this have to do with KV? Most of the things shown on the video work the same in Czech republic/Slovakia anyway.

EDIT: Looking at some other articles, there´s a lot of anit-KHL and pro-American based stuff, so why do you even bother posting here on the KHL boards?

Little bit of black PR and trash talk. Compared to stuff in russian press about NHL this is nothing really.



And what?) They are shows Moscow arenas which have always had low attendance and fans (football ultras) fights.
Here is another KHL Arena: full attendance, great support, perfect show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w97vxeyz21c
To be honest, there's a lot to improve in this department.

Little bit of black PR and trash talk. Compared to stuff in russian press about NHL this is nothing really.






Yes, but I was just asking wth did he post something like that in a topic about a Czech team joining the KHL. I would ask this same if it was a reverse situation on the NHL board.

Yes, but I was just asking wth did he post something like that in a topic about a Czech team joining the KHL. I would ask this same if it was a reverse situation on the NHL board.

Fair point.