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Position
  
Role
  
ice hockey player

Shoots
  
Left

Height
  
1.91 m


Playing career
  
2010–present

Weight
  
91 kg

Name
  
Mikhail Grigorenko

Salary
  
675,000 USD (2015)

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Born
  
16 May 1994 (age 29) Khabarovsk, Russia (
1994-05-16
)

NHL teamFormer teams
  
Colorado AvalancheBuffalo Sabres

NHL Draft
  
12th overall, 2012Buffalo Sabres

Current team
  
Colorado Avalanche (#25 / Centerman)

Similar People
  
Nikita Zadorov, Gabriel Landeskog, Ted Nolan, Tim Murray, Brian Gionta

Mikhail grigorenko


Mikhail Olegovich Grigorenko (Russian: Михаил Олегович Григоренко; born May 16, 1994) is A Russian professional Ice hockey forward. He currently plays under contract to CSKA Moscow for the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).

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Born and raised in Russia, Grigorenko moved to North America in 2011 and joined the Quebec Remparts of the QMJHL. After one season in Quebec, he was selected twelfth overall in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft by the Buffalo Sabres. Grigorenko was also selected by CSKA Moscow in the first round (8th overall) of the 2011 KHL Junior Draft. He has previously played in the NHL with the Sabres and the Colorado Avalanche.

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Junior

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Grigorenko first played competitive junior hockey in his native Russia with Krasnaya Armiya in the MHL, the junior team to CSKA Moscow. In the 2010–11 season, as a 16-year old, Grigorenko impressively showed an early offensive touch in contributing with 17 goals and 35 points in 43 games.

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In June 2011, Grigorenko was selected second overall in the CHL Import Draft by the Quebec Remparts of the QMJHL. NHL Hall of Famer Patrick Roy, the owner, general manager and head coach of the Remparts, liked Grigorenko so much that he traded up in the Import Draft in order to select him.

Grigorenko played in 59 games with the Remparts during the 2011–12 season, his first in North America, and recorded 40 goals and 45 assists for 85 points. He led all rookie players in the QMJHL in goals and points, and was second for assists to capture the Michel Bergeron Trophy. He also finished fifth overall in goals scored and was tied for eighth overall for points while playing the fewest games of any player who was in the top ten in points. Earning selection to the All-Rookie and First All-Star Teams, on March 20, 2012, Grigorenko was also nominated and chosen as the top professional prospect to play in the QMJHL during 2011–12 with the Mike Bossy Trophy.

As a top rated forward prospect for the 2012 NHL Entry Draft, Grigorenko was selected in the first round, 12th overall, by the Buffalo Sabres. On July 18, 2012, he was signed to a three-year entry-level contract with the Sabres. With the 2012–13 NHL lockout delaying the beginning of the NHL Season, Grigorenko was reassigned to start the season back with the Remparts, where he played 32 games and recorded 50 points during the season prior to the lockout ending in January. At the time he was leading the Remparts and fifth in the QMJHL with 29 goals, and his 50 points were second on the team.

Buffalo Sabres

When the lockout ended in January, he was invited to the Sabres training camp, where he made the roster for the start of the season. After playing five games with the Sabres, the team decided to keep Grigorenko for the remainder of the season rather than send him back to the Remparts; had they done so it would not have counted as a year on his entry-level contract. On January 29, 2013 Grigorenko scored his first career NHL goal against James Reimer of the Toronto Maple Leafs in becoming the fifth youngest Sabre to scoring in franchise history.

After 22 games with the Sabres, where he recorded one goal and four assists, Grigorenko was reassigned to the Remparts on 15 March 2013. Grigorenko went on to lead the Remparts in playoff scoring with 14 points in 11 games, before being recalled by the Sabres on 16 April 2013.

Grigorenko started the 2013–14 season with the Sabres. However, with the Sabres cleaning out the front office and coaching staff, and with an imperative to rely less on the youth from new head coach Ted Nolan, he was returned to junior after sporadically appearing in just 18 games on January 11, 2014. He reported to the Remparts several days later after initially refusing to do so. In his final junior season with the Remparts, Grigorenko dominated in his 23 appearances, collecting 15 goals and 39 points in the regular season. With an early post-season exit, Grigorenko was then assigned to AHL affiliate, the Rochester Americans to play out the remainder of the year.

In his first full professional year, Grigorenko split the 2014–15 season, between the Sabres and the Rochester Americans. Beginning the year with the Sabres, Grigorenko would be shuffled between the NHL and AHL on five separate occasions. In 43 games with the Americans, Grigorenko continued to show his offensive promise in posting 14 goals and 36 points. He returned to complete the season with the Sabres, scoring 6 points in 25 games.

Colorado Avalanche

At the 2015 NHL Entry Draft and as an impending restricted free agent, Grigorenko was traded by the Sabres in a package that included, Nikita Zadorov, J. T. Compher, and the 31st pick in the draft to the Colorado Avalanche in exchange for Ryan O'Reilly and Jamie McGinn on June 26, 2015. Grigorenko then signed to an initial one-year, one-way contract with the Avalanche on July 17, 2015.

His arrival in Colorado marked a reunion with former junior coach and then head coach Patrick Roy. He made the Avalanche roster after his first training camp, opening the 2015-16 season. After being a healthy scratch for 3 games, Grigorenko made his Avalanche debut centering the fourth line, collecting an assist on a Jack Skille goal in a 3-0 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on October 16, 2015. He continued with fourth line duties until injury gave him an opportunity in a top 6 scoring role. Grigorenko responded in recording his first goal for the Avalanche, in a 3-point night against the Montreal Canadiens on November 14, 2017. He compiled 7 points in 6 contests on an East Coast road trip before he was returned to the fourth line. Grigorenko later secured a role on a scoring line through the midpoint of the year to play his first full season in the NHL, recording a career-high 6 goals and 27 points in 74 games.

In the off season, as a restricted free agent, Grigorenko originally filed for arbitration. Ahead of his scheduled meeting, he agreed to a one-year, $1.3 million contract with the Avalanche on July 21, 2016. With the surprise departure of head coach Patrick Roy, Grigorenko initially impressed incoming head coach Jared Bednar, leading the Avalanche in pre-season scoring. In the 2016–17 season, however, he was unable to maintain his offensive production as a consistent scoring threat. While lacking the physicality for a lower depth role, Grigorenko (mainly playing on the wing) collected 10 goals for 23 points in 75 games for the cellar-dwelling Avalanche.

On June 26, 2017, Grigorenko was not tendered a qualifying contract by the Colorado Avalanche and became an unrestricted free agent.

CSKA Moscow

As a free agent, Grigorenko garnered NHL interest however opted to return to Russia in agreeing to a three-year contract his original junior club, CSKA Moscow of the KHL, on July 7, 2017.

International play

Grigorenko first represented Russia as a 15-year old at the 2009 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament where Russia finished second. In an extensive international junior career with Russia, Grigorenko helped Russia to collect three successive medals at the World Junior Championships, with a Silver medal in Canada in 2012 followed by two Bronze medals in his native Russia in 2013 and Sweden in 2014.

Personal life

Grigorenko was born in Khabarovsk, located in the Russian Far East near the border of China. His older brother, Yuri, also played hockey, and spent five seasons in the minor leagues of both Russia and Belarus.

In 2011, after being selected by the Remparts in the CHL Import Draft, Grigorenko moved to Quebec City with his mother and Yuri. While he initially didn't understand English, Grigorenko took classes five days a week with a Russian teacher and by the end of the season he was able to conduct interviews in English without the aid of a translator.

References

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