While salaries of players in Russian’s Kontinental Hockey League are not made public, the agent for new Avalanche defenseman Andrei Mironov says he will take a big pay cut to achieve his dream of playing in the NHL.
“He had one year left on his deal and would have made a lot more had he stayed there instead of Colorado,” said Dan Milstein, the Michigan-based agent for Mironov, who has agreed to a two-year, entry-level contract with the Avs that will be made official once the NHL league office approves the transfer agreement with the KHL. “But he very much wanted to do this, to play for the Avalanche and be in the NHL.