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Triple exchange of SKA, “Metallurg” and “Cupid”, the whole alignment

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SKA, Magnitogorsk and Cupid are changing players. Perhaps this is the weirdest offseason exchange

Big trade looks like an attempt to escape from the salary ceiling, but it is beneficial to everyone.

May 27, 2020, 23:35

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There were so many hockey movements between St. Petersburg, Khabarovsk and Magnitogorsk that it is worth starting to restore the chronology of what was happening.

the 6th of May: Metallurg signed a two-year contract with the former Admiral striker Vladimir Butuzov.

16th of May: SKA exchanged striker Sergei Plotnikov in Amur for another striker – Igor Rudenkov.

May 27th: Amur sent Plotnikov to Metallurg in exchange for striker Yegor Spiridonov, rights to defender Yegor Zamulu and monetary compensation.

May 28: SKA exchanged attackers Ilya Kablukov and Maxim Karpov in Amur for Spiridonov and for the rights to Zamula.

According to our data, Kablukov and Karpov will soon terminate contracts with Amur and sign agreements with Magnitogorsk – with reduced salaries, of course. And the Khabarovsk people will receive, as compensation, from Metallurg striker Butuzov, defender Savely Olshansky and the right to striker Denis Smirnov.

Criminality Know

Let’s face it – these manipulations at first glance look strange. If the whole combination was carried out in one day, then there would be many questions. And so – time smoothed everything out. You can put into action a popular meme with Artemy Lebedev: “Well, exchanged and exchanged.”

But in fact, there is really no crime in such a large-scale deal. No one forbids Amur to give away Sergei Plotnikov less than a month after arrival. It is unlikely that the forward of the Russian national team was eager to play for a club that never climbed further than the first round of the playoffs, and his 70 millionth salary for Khabarovsk was too much. So they decided in Amur to exchange dear Plotnikov for a couple of more budget hockey players. Sometimes the depth of the composition is more important than a supercontracted dissatisfied star.

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The contract of the striker is still adequate, and he earned all his money a long time ago.

With the terminations, everything is also legally clean, although in the story with Karpov and Kablukov a logical question arises, why would Amur have to pay compensation to the players if SKA could do this? But a trilateral mechanism works here – Petersburgers sent three forwards with “heavy” contracts to Khabarovsk, Amur received money from Magnitogorsk for Plotnikov’s transfer and will spend it on terminating the agreements with Kablukov and Karpov. Then Metallurg will sign the last two on conditions that are adequate for the current time, and Khabarovsk will receive Butuzov, Olshansky and the right to Smirnov.

Salary ceiling in action

The most offensive in this whole story is Plotnikov’s failed transfer to Amur. It looked very beautiful – the salary ceiling returns the stars to their native clubs. Alas, the KHL is not in a vacuum and the amount of 900 million rubles in the salary ceiling does not guarantee that every team will have such a budget. The coronavirus epidemic and the subsequent economic crisis make this money space for the same “Cupid” or the conditional “Siberia”.

Perhaps in Khabarovsk they expected that Plotnikov would make concessions for the sake of his own club, but he was not a hockey patron. You can agree to a demotion for the sake of big sporting tasks or life in a resort city. Amur could not give the former SKA captain either the first or the second. Just a feeling of nostalgia for the good old days. Alas, Plotnikov is not Ernest Hemingway to quietly be sad in Paris. And Khabarovsk, with all due respect, is far from Paris.

As a result, Sergei went to the more status Magnitogorsk, where he certainly would not be in star loneliness. Nearby, at least Sergey Mozyakin, and soon Maxim Karpov will catch up. The latter in the Moscow “Dynamo” stably scored more than 10 goals per season, but was lost in SKA. A calmer, rebuilding Magnitogorsk is a great option for Karpov. As well as for Kablukov, a few years ago he was quite a creative striker in Atlanta, and in SKA he was converted into a role-playing center. The apogee of this transformation is 3 points in the previous “regular season”. In Magnitogorsk he will get more time on ice and may well remember the past. This is ideal, and he will add balance to the game of Heels anyway.

The St. Petersburg contracts of Karpov and Kablukov were really great, but both will sign with Magnitogorsk on much more modest conditions.

In the end, everyone was the winner: Petersburgers unloaded the paycheck and fit into the salary ceiling, Amur got Butuzov and Olshansky, and Magnitogorsk got three experienced forwards around whom you can build a new team.

In fact, this is what the salary ceiling was introduced for – KHL grants, such as SKA, abandon the strategy of five or six packed links and distribute qualified players to second-tier clubs, such as the current Magnitogorsk. From them, in turn, it falls to teams that balance on the verge of the G8, such as Cupid.

Payment CSKA – already more than 900 million. But whims with Sorokin still spend the season in the KHL?

After all, there are other teams in the league.

Of course it would be great if Plotnikov, Karpov and Kablukov were immediately evenly distributed between Amur, Magnitogorsk and the conditional Torpedo. We are still far from ideal, but most importantly, the process is already running.

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