Right from the IIHF site

" ESPOO, Finland – Champions Hockey League semifinalist and SM-liiga runner-up Espoo Blues is struggling with financial problems, and the club has encouraged its players to look for employment elsewhere"

http://www.iihf.com/home-of-hockey/news/news-singleview/article/blues-starts-fire-sale.html?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=955&cHash=3f2fa9b492

This site says similar, loosely translatesd,  http://www.mtv3.fi/urheilu/jaakiekko/uutiset.shtml/arkistot/jaakiekko/2009/06/891423   (by its nature, Finnish does not translate well on machine translators, i.e. Google language tools)

The Espoo Blues are a significant team in SM-liiga

Espoo is hockey hotspot, and home to international goalie coach Jukka Ropponen http://www.goaliepro.com/en/

The economy has whacked everyone, but to my knowledge this is the first I have heard of a team telling its players to find work elsewhere, especially during free agency season in the KHL.

CPS