Mikhail Grabovski contract: Capitals sign free agent to one-year deal

As the offseason winds through August, the fate of free agent Mikhail Grabovski has remained one of the biggest questions in the NHL.

Grabovski clearly wants to stay in the NHL after his buy out by the Maple Leafs, since truckloads of rubles would have been unloaded on his doorstep had he a real desire to play in the KHL. He’s clearly feeling the brunt of having trashed his former coach, Randy Carlyle, for playing him on the third and fourth lines, a terrible fit for a player like Grabovski.