MOSCOW, Feb. 26 Finnish Jokerit may not return next season to the Continental Hockey League (KHL), according to the journalist of the Finnish newspaper Iltalehti Pekka Jalonen. «Jokerit» on Friday announced the early end of the 2021/22 season against the backdrop of aggravated Russian-Ukrainian relations. The KHL has decided to award the club technical defeats in the Gagarin Cup first round series with Spartak Moscow. players. When the oligarch Vladimir Potanin stops financing the club, Jokerit will be bankrupt in a second. Even if the war between Russia and Ukraine ends quickly, the world will no longer be the same, and the Jokerit + KHL equation will not belong to him, «Jalonen wrote. According to the source, the clubs of the Finnish league want to strengthen the players, «Jokerit», but as of Friday, none of the club's hockey players have expressed their intention to terminate the contract. The journalist is sure that the club will not be able to play either in the KHL or in the Finnish leagues, as they will need new sponsors and an arena. «Jokerit» may cease to exist in its current form, retaining only the youth team.
