Since the Olympics last August, there’s been lotsa talk about NBAers going overseas to chase big money playing for European teams. And thanks to a new league that recently revved up in Russia, called the Continental Hockey League (KHL), the NHL is now hearing similar chatter.

(Society For The Preservation Of Cameltoes badly needs tardy payczech)

Jaromir Jagr has been the only high-profiler to make the jump to the first-year circuit, but that doesn’t mean that the league has been a smashing success. Along with the untimely death of Rangers prospect Alexei Cherepanov during an early season game, the OTTAWA CITIZEN reports the KHL is undergoing some serious financial growing pains.

There have been reports that Ufa, the team that signed forward Alexander Radulov even though he was still under contract to the Nashville Predators, hasn’t paid its players in three months.

The Metallurg team in Magnitogorsk, one of the league’s powers, has also had money problems and the Cherepovets club in Severstal may not have paid its players since August. Moscow Spartak and MVD Balashika, a club sponsored by the Ministry of the Interior (police), are also apparently behind in payments.

Even Jagr’s vowel-challenged team in Omsk is said to have missed payroll. Read more…