Regarding the expansion, KHL is not done. Next year, they'll 99% add Jokerit Helsinki (one of the most popular Finnish teams) and one team from Italy (Bolzano?).
Interesting transaction/moves:
Ex-Penguin G Peter Skudra just became the head coach of Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod.
John Torchetti will be the new head coach of CSKA Moscow (ex-Penguin Sergei Zubov will be the defense coach there).
Jonathan Cheechoo to Medvescak Zagreb.
Tomas Vincour (ex-DAL, COL) to Kazan.
Hossa to RIG
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Something from the last year: NHL player salaries (per team) KHL teams paid during lockout (in RUB; 1 USD = 32.6 RUB today):
1. CSKA Moskva (Bryzgalov, Dacjuk, Grabovskij) 326.103.907 (i.e. ~$10 mil)
2. Magnitogorsk (Gončar, Malkin, Kuljomin) 254.172.855
3. Dynamo Moskva (Ovečkin, Bäckström, Komarov) 237.028.402
4. Petrohrad (Bobrovskij, Kovalčuk) 233.767.622
5. N. Novgorod (Volčenkov, Sjomin) 72.517.935
6. Doněck (Babčuk, Fedotěnko, Ponikarovskij) 62.539.206
7. Barys Astana (Hedman, McDonagh, Antropov) 48.832.004
8. Lev Praha (Chára, Červenka, Voráček, Hudler) 48.585.000
9. Jaroslavl (Varlamov, Kulikov, Anisimov) 38.593.152
10. Omsk (Nikitin, S. Kosticyn) 36.540.128
11. Dynamo Minsk (Rinne, Kane, Pavelski) 28.833.257
12. Atlant (Chudobin, Tjutin, Stalberg) 24.833.257
13. Čechov (A. Markov) 23.051.196
14. Kazaň (Jemelin) 19.930.462
15. Slovan Bratislava (Sekera, Višňovský) 9.319.282
16. Nižněkamsk (Jakupov) 8.377.198
17. Čerepovec (Wandell) 6.600.000
18. Jekatěrinburg (Lupul) 5.380.571
19. Dynamo Riga (Daugavinš) 4.076.129