Dany Heatley was hit near the eye by a puck shot by his Swiss team teammate Daniel Briere. He is expected to miss up to 6 weeks , but is expected to regain full vision and use of his eye.
(ps........all players in the Swiss league are required to wear visors ).

J Jagr is leaving his Czech team (Kladno) to join the Russian team ...Avangard Omsk.
Irony ?
Mr Jagr has always worn number 68 in protest of the 1968 RUSSIAN invasion of Czechoslavakia.

"Russian" & "Soviet" are not interchangable....."Soviet" was not a nationality & that  spread beyond current Russia (Ukraine,Lithuania,Latvia,etc.) and the world saw how communism really "benefitted" those countries.

 

7/11/01-1/23/03.
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Communism did benefit those countries (easy to do, since they started from so low - they had left the medieval system not too long before). Stalin's dictatorship, however, was no better than Nikolai II's.

Havlat signs with Moscow Dynamo

Canadian Press

11/10/2004

Winger Martin Havlat of the Ottawa Senators is the latest NHL star to join the Russian league, officially joining Moscow Dynamo on Wednesday.

The Czech native transferred from Znojmo of the Czech league and will likely play his first game with Dynamo next week.

``From Martin's perspective, having the chance to go to Russia and play in a very competitive league, he's really looking forward to being part of that,'' Havlat's agent Allan Walsh said Wednesday from Los Angeles.

It's believed Dynamo will play Havlat $1.2 million US to play the rest of the season.

At Dynamo, Havlat will join up with Detroit Red Wings star centre Pavel Datsyuk as the Russian league continues to load up on the top NHL talent by throwing some big-time money around at the league's top locked-out players.

AK Bars Kazan leads the way with 11 NHLers, including Brad Richards, Vincent Lecavalier and Nikolai Khabibulin of the Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning as well as Alexei Kovalev of the Montreal Canadiens, Ilya Kovalchuk of the Atlanta Thrashers and Alexei Morozov of the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Omsk Avangard completed the transfer Monday of star winger Jaromir Jagr of the New York Rangers. Jagr, Richards and Lecavalier will all earn over $300,000 a month _ tax-free.

Meanwhile, Havlat's Senators teammate Daniel Alfredsson is not quite on the move just yet. The International Ice Hockey Federation had the Sens captain listed as joining Frolunda of the Swedish league Wednesday but his agent said that hasn't happened yet.

``He has not signed with them yet. But he may after the New Year, and most likely he will,'' Claes Elefalk of IMG said Wednesday from Stockholm.

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Wonder what Don Cherry would think of Lacavlier?

And Peerless,see the reaction at the other place?(Czechmate is a braver soul than I am.)?I just wisHed they find something more original than the gambling....it's getting old.

7/11/01-1/23/03.
"This is America! And in America, if something sucks, you're supposed to be able to get your money back."-Stan Marsh
There is no Hockey God. I am proof.
I'm the Weeping Willow,and I approve of this post.

I am amazed that so many NHL players are going to Russia.
I was under the impression that the MOB had their fingers into the russian hockey leagues and got their cut of the profits(including a goodly sum from the players).
Maybe I am wrong here.