Denis Gurianov, acquired by the Philadelphia Flyers from the Nashville Predators on the March 8 NHL trade deadline in exchange for winger Wade Allison, has paused his NHL career, signing a two-year contract with KHL outfit CSKA Moscow on Thursday.
Former Nashville Predators players, Denis Gurianov and Egor Afanasyev, are set to take the ice in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) in Russia next season for CSKA Moscow.
On a day with multiple NHL draft picks signing in Russia’s KHL, another name has been added to the list. After eight seasons in both the NHL and AHL, forward Denis Gurianov signed a two-year contract with Moscow’s CSKA.
The 27-year-old was a first-round pick back in 2015 and while he didn’t become a consistent top-six option for the Stars, he put up a 20-goal season and averaged 30 points between 2019-20 and 2021-22.
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.
Ahead of Friday’s 3 p.m. NHL trade deadline, the Philadelphia Flyers made a trade out of left field, swapping winger Wade Allison for Nashville Predators winger Denis Gurianov.
The Philadelphia Flyers acquired defenseman Erik Johnson and forward Denis Gurianov in separate deals prior to Friday's trade deadline. The Flyers picked up Johnson from the Buffalo Sabres in exchange for a fourth-round pick in the 2024 NHL Draft.
The Nashville Predators have been extremely busy ahead of the trade deadline this season as general manager Barry Trotz has made his mark on this surging team so far.
The Philadelphia Flyers have dealt Wade Allison to the Nashville Predators in exchange for Denis Gurianov Gurianov has two points in 14 games this season with the Predators.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
It’s decision time for the Nashville Predators as they face the Minnesota Wild Thursday night at Xcel Energy Center. Even after they made the decision to send 22-year-old Juuso Parssinen to the Milwaukee Admirals in the AHL on Tuesday, additional roster decisions need to be made quicker than general manager Barry Trotz likely would have hoped.
The AHL announced that Milwaukee Admirals forward Denis Gurianov is the league's Player of the Week. The acknowledgement comes after Gurianov scored four goals and six points in the team's last three games.
The Dallas Stars confirmed on Thursday that they've signed restricted free-agent forward Denis Gurianov to a two-year contract that runs through the 2021-22 season and carries an annual average value of $2.55 million.