Michkov is signed in the KHL until the end of the 2025-2026 season. In 2019, the KHL introduced a hard salary cap in their league. The 2022-2023 salary cap is established a 900M Ruble so around 11.5M USD as of today. However, the rules are a bit different vs the NHL hard cap.

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