MOSCOW -- Players at the Sochi hockey club that forms a major part of the legacy of last year's Winter Olympics are starting a legal battle over months of unpaid wages.
HC Sochi plays in the Kontinental Hockey League, widely regarded as the strongest competition outside the NHL, and features some of the competition's biggest average crowds. But the club has hit major financial problems in its debut season.
With players unpaid since January, team captain Nikita Shchitov told Russia's R-Sport agency on Wednesday that the KHL Players' Trade Union is preparing to file an official complaint to prosecutors on behalf of the Sochi players.
Shchitov said that players had received "nothing solid" about a possible payment schedule and that "there's a feeling that the club has no money and no one needs it."
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