Dinamo Riga English Website and KHL Team Budgets

Dinamo Riga (Latvia) of the upstart KHL (Kontinental Hockey League, mostly Russian league with ambitions to rival NHL in the future, or even now what with the Alexander Radulov signing) has an English website now! (And it looks great too, coming from a web-savvy Baltic nation maybe this shouldn’t be a surprise.) This is great news, as Riga and KHL info, stats, and news are now available in English.

 

And KHL team budgets are now available and there is quite the gap between the richest and the poorest clubs. This seems to be total operating budgets that include player salaries, but nonetheless very interesting.

1. AK Bars Kazan – $55 mill. 

2. -4. Salvat Ulaev Ufa, SKA St. Petersburg, Avangard Omsk – $50 mill.

5. Metallurg Magnitogorsk – $45 mill.

6. Lokomotiv Yaroslavl – $40 mill.

7. Atlant Moscow – $35 mill.

8. -9. Dinamo Maskava, Sibir Novosibirsk – $25 mill.

10. CSKA Moscow – $22 mill.

11.-12. HK MVD Balashikha, Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod – $20 mill.

13. Spartak Moscow – $18 mill.

14. Amur Khabarovsk – $17 mill.

15. Dinamo Minsk – $16 mill.

16.-17. Severstal Cherepovets, Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk- $15 mill.

18.-19. Metallurg Novokuznetsk, Vityaz Chekhov – $13 mill.

20. Lada Togliatti – $12 mill.

21.-22. Dinamo Rīga, Traktor Chelyabinsk – $11 mill.

23.-24. Barys Astana, Khimik Voskresensk – $10 mill.

For a team with such a lot budget, Riga is off to an awesome start leading the Kharlamov Division right now with 5 wins, 2 OT/SO losses, and 2 losses in 9 games, good for 17 points.