http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/News/2009/05/05/9361256-cp.html 

BERN, Switzerland - Alexander Medvedev, the billionaire owner of Russia's Continental Hockey League, is interested in buying an NHL franchise.

"We have considered 10 opportunities, we have short-listed three and we continue to look at these three teams," Medvedev said Tuesday at the IIHF World Hockey Championship. "We will just make our due diligence.

"It's a very strange situation when real hockey (cities) like Quebec don't have an NHL team."