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I'm all for the back door deals and shady business agreements getting Michkov here sooner but according to what we know, Michkov has to buy out his contract from the KHL and his KHL team has to AGREE to it also.
I know everyone is quoting the Jagr draft scenario and extrapolating to Michkov but the NHL-KHL agreement is making it way harder than it was for that.
To my understanding, the NHL would not ratify a Michkov NHL contract until his contract in KHL is completed or bought out and accepted. There is no way around this.
If papa Ovi can pull some strings to make things happen, great but it still has to happen in the order mentioned above.