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Sweden's AIK may join Russian hockey league

Published Nov. 19, 2009 5:23 p.m. ET

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AIK, a Stockholm-based team which is currently fourth in second-tier league Allsvenskan in Sweden, said Thursday it has received an invitation from the KHL and has signed a letter of intent to join.

KHL president Alexander Medvedev said the addition of a Swedish club would boost the league's ambition of creating a pan-European competition.

AIK won seven Swedish titles between 1934 and '84 but has spent most of this decade in the second-tier league.

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