One of the main features of the current season in the Kontinental hockey League (KHL) was the increase in personnel turnover. It is, of course, is largely connected with important financial innovation of the CHL rules, a rigid ceiling of salaries in 900 million roubles, which was the first to appear at the next championship. The introduction of this tool in the middle of the last decade in the National hockey League (NHL) has radically changed her appearance.Among the highlights related to the Russian sports industry, at the junction of spring and summer, of course, was the increased transfer activity of the clubs of the Continental hockey League. The KHL regularly publishes a dispatch table, and the one that was updated at the end of last weekend, in the “left” were listed the names of 310 players. Following the off-season 2019 there were 375 names. But we must remember that after April, in the midst of a pandemic of mers refused to participate in the next championship of Vladivostok “Admiral”, the members of the KHL are not 24, but 23 clubs, and most importantly, the distance to the start of the next season. It is tentatively scheduled for September 2. Given the abundance of time for holding of the selection campaign, the fact that the table did not get some players, about whose intention to leave the club already well known (the President of CSKA Igor Esmantovich, for example, announced the departure to the NHL Cyril Kaprizova — the best scorer of the last championship that was interrupted by the coronavirus in the play-off stage), indicators of a year ago will certainly be significantly blocked.Personnel turnover, at least in part is certainly due to the important innovation of the financial regulations of the KHL, the implementation of which was initiated by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko, until January of this year, held the position of President of the League. To improve the financial situation and raise the degree of competition, he suggested using a stiff, i.e. non exceeded, a salary cap. Is acting still soft (850 million rubles in the previous season), but with the possibility of a substantial and relatively painless excess is entered starting with the nearest championship. The size of the ceiling — the amount of the annual contracts of all players of the club — was set at around 900 million roubles, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of CHL Gennady Timchenko, explaining, “b” and principles of action of the ceiling, pointed out that the real payroll of the club together with non some individual and team bonuses may amount to 1.26 billion RUB But, even taking into account these nuances, expectations about the fact that a number of clubs will have to adapt to the ceiling, looked natural.In 2019 RBC published the payroll of NHL teams before last season actioout moments the soft ceiling. According to his version, five did not fit even in the limit indicated Gennady Timchenko, is the remaining winner of the Gagarin Cup CSKA, who plays with him in the Western conference arch rivals SKA (both payroll was estimated at 1.75 billion rubles), as well as grandees of the Eastern conference metallurg (RUB 1.5 billion), Avangard (1.4 billion rubles) and “AK bars” (1.35 billion rubles). The milestone of 900 million rubles was blocked by three teams — “Salavat Yulaev” with “Motorist” (1.2 billion rubles) and Moscow “Dynamo” (1 bn). There is nothing strange in the fact that some of the clubs on this list are among the most prominent in the market as sellers, if not quantitative, then a qualitative point of view. So, CSKA and SKA, head of the unofficial “rating of financial well-being” in the KHL, has already left a group of solid players, some of which, according to various sources, left, agreeing to proposals for wage cuts required to meet the tight ceiling.Predicting the sporting consequences of the introduction of a rigid ceiling, the actual memories of the North American hockey League. In the NHL he was introduced instead of soft after the lockout, tore the 2004-2005 season. The main reason for the introduction was the desire of the League to stop the risks of a financial nature and to control the growth of player salaries, and thus prevent too rapid growth of club expenses. Meanwhile, the introduction of the tool has radically altered the landscape of the NHL championship, the hierarchy of depriving it of any resistance.Before 2005, a common phenomenon in North American ice hockey team-the”dynasty” series wins the Stanley Cup. In different periods they were “Montreal Canadiens”, “new York islanders”, “Edmonton Oilers”, “Detroit Red wings”. After the appearance of the hard ceiling of “dynasty” disappeared, and “double” “Pittsburgh penguins”, who took the Stanley Cup twice in a row in 2016 and 2017, was treated as an extraordinary event, as the success in the first half of the decade culminating in the “Chicago Blackhawks” and “Los Angeles kings”: they won the prize twice with an interval of only one year.Hard ceiling, as it turned out, actually destroyed the ability of the squad for years to come, and the Cup success began to have the opposite effect — in the form of jumping up the demand for characters of the drawing, which the victors could not remain, not exceeding the ceiling. Or I could, but at the sacrifice of other important characters. As a result of personnel turnover due to financial reasons, along with the positioning of free space under the ceiling as a serious competitive advantage in the NHL have become the norm. To normal it has become and surprises when you just stared modestly the club, taking advantage of the availability of the leaders of the more powerful opponents, he gained power and was making a breakthrough and, on the contrary, a recent favorite, the pressed ceiling suddenly fell down. In this sense, examples of “Chicago” and “Los Angeles” is extremely revealing. Clubs whose positions a few years ago seemed solid, soon after its UPS settled in outsider niche and can’t get it to leave.Now it will be interesting to see what effect will have a hard ceiling on the sports component of the KHL, in which the separation of niches has always been clearer and in which breakthroughs and downs happened less often than in the NHL by 2008 — the year of the launch of the national project — already three seasons long used to a hard ceiling (see reference). And it will be interesting to see whether undertaken new attack to the ceiling from unhappy with his size.KHL spring, has twice had to beat them. For the first time in early March, when it increased to 1.3 billion sought by the Federation of hockey of Russia, in his letter pointed out that the tool forces the clubs to “suspend negotiations for the conclusion of contracts for the next season with members of the Russian national team due to the inability to offer them competitive with the National hockey League conditions” and that the situation creates “a serious risk of disrupting the preparations for the Russian team for the Olympics 2022”, “as from clubs in the KHL will leave the leading and most talented hockey players”. Then in late April, when the question of mitigation of the ceiling was put to a vote on the Board of Directors of the League (she claimed that the initiative in the first place CSKA). 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