Mikhail Grigorenko
Grigorenko showed signs of improvement this past season on a Colorado Avalanche team that finished in last place. In his second full season in the league, Grigorenko posted 10 goals and 13 assists in 75 games.
The Russian is a great skater for his size at 6-foot-3 and 210lbs. The knock on him is that sometimes he looks a bit disinterested or unengaged in play. That’s never a good thing to hear, but on a team as bad as Colorado has been, it’s in human nature to not be as engaged in games that have zero meaning.
Now that the Rangers have two vacant center slots on their roster and will likely need to at least fill one of them in free agency, a guy like Grigorenko who is young–he’s only 23–is highly skilled and will most likely come on a cheap deal with little term wouldn’t be a horrible option.