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In terms of the level of play, entertainment, organization, and, accordingly, salaries, the KHL came close to the most popular hockey format – the NHL. While watching the next uncompromising battle in Russia 2, I thought: “How much would the best representatives of the Soviet hockey heritage receive in our time?” Here is my Dream Team, made up of multiple world, European and Olympic champions:

Tretiak became the first European hockey player to be inducted into the National Hockey League Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. If Vladislav Aleksandrovich played in our difficult time, he could well count on the salary of the “King” Henrik Lundqvist of the New York Rangers, which is about 7.5 million dollars a year.




Valery Borisovich Kharlamov in the KHL would have earned a salary no less than that of Alexander Ovechkin. That’s 9 million evergreen annual income. But for the best hockey player of the USSR (1972, 1973) it is a suitable salary.


If Alexander Maltsev, one of the most technical players in the history of Soviet hockey and the author of the absolute record of the USSR national hockey team: 213 goals in 321 matches, had been born 30-40 years later, he would surely have fallen into our top five. I would certainly pay him as much as Sidney Crosby or Eugene Malkin $8-9 million a year.


Firsov, Anatoly Vasilyevich certainly would not have remained without the attention of the scouts from the Dream Team. After all, he was recognized as the best striker at the world championships in 1967, 1968, 1971. And those players are under $7.5 million on a decent team. You'd have to pay the same.


Alexander Pavlovich Ragulin occupies an honorable place in our ranking of the most expensive five KHL from Soviet hockey players. After all, the "big Rag" winner, matching him, the largest number of medals among all hockey players - (27) at the ZOI, world championships and Europe. Such a defender would probably dream of getting in Chicago Blackhawks millions for seven. But we'd get it.


Three-time Olympic champion and the best defender in the world in 1967, Vitaly Davydov closes the list. Vitaly Semenovich would surely have a place in the defense of our Dream Team. And he certainly wouldn't have given up a $6.6 salary as a San Jose Sharks defender.


P. S.
And another comrade. It is impossible to value it in monetary terms. Because Bobrov not only played for the national teams of the USSR in hockey and football at the same time (!), but later and coached these teams. Therefore, Vsevolod Mikhailovich does not get into my list, because it will not be possible to pick up an equal to the person to whom our sport is simply obliged.


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