Mikhail Grabovsky Joins the Islanders'...Division  Lighthouse
Hockey's picture  Ever since the Toronto Maple Leafs made the
shocking decision to buy out Mikhail Grabovsky and invest more
money in Tyler Bozak, fans of other teams salivated over the
prospect of a good offensive center suddenly available for free.
While Grabovsky's down season in Toronto -- much of it tied to
coach Randy Carlyle's bizarre deployment -- and his fiery exit
may have depressed the number of bidders, it also made him
something else: A likely bargain.  (Almost a Garth Snow
"distressed asset" special, in that sense; though Grabovsky's
controversial history doesn't fit with typical Snow targets. The
Isles don't tend to pursue players who publicly vocalize, even
after they part, "I don’t feel any support from this [expletive]
idiot." [in reference to Carlyle].)  I'm one of the Isles fans
who would've loved Snow to try Grabovsky, in a purely gluttonous
"GIVE ME ALL THE CENTERS" kind of way. But it's understandable
why the Isles didn't tr