Daily News | Latest KHL ruling means Flyers will have to wait at least another year for Ivan Fedotov
that Fedotov’s contract from last year will be tolled or applied to this season. In other words, they still hold his NHL rights this season.
There was a glimmer of hope that Fedotov could have come to North America this season. That hinged on the KHL not registering his recently signed contract with CSKA. The KHL and NHL previously had a “memorandum of understanding” that required each league to respect the other’s player contracts. That memorandum was suspended in March 2022 after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine but both the NHL and KHL have acted in good faith with each other’s contracts since.
The KHL’s decision to recognize Fedotov’s new KHL contract and not honor his NHL one with the Flyers no longer violates any rules but it does open up a new can of worms when it comes to NHL-KHL relations. This change of tact will be especially relevant for the Flyers, who drafted two Russian players this year in promising winger Matvei Michkov and goaltender Egor Zavragin.
Michkov, the No. 7 overall pick, is signed through the 2025-26 season with KHL team SKA Saint Petersburg. But the NHL could potentially look at the KHL’s handling of the Fedotov situation and choose to act in a similar manner toward existing KHL contracts and try and bring players over earlier. This will be a fascinating development to watch over the coming months and years.
For now, it looks as if Fedotov will return to CSKA and play this season out. Whether he will ever join the Flyers and live out his NHL dream is anybody’s guess at this point.
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