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NHL, Russian league agree to respect player contracts across borders

Associated Press

Thursday, July 10, 2008

ZURICH, Switzerland -- The NHL reached an agreement with a new Russian hockey league Thursday that temporarily ends the threat of players being lured away by big-money offers. The pact to respect player contracts across all borders followed offers made last month by teams in Russia's Continental Hockey League -- which begins play in September -- to entice Evgeni Malkin out of the final year of his deal with the Pittsburgh Penguins. It was reached at a meeting of the NHL, the NHL Players' Assoc ...

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