This morning the Sabres assigned Grigorenko to the Remparts, but he refuses to report:
http://blogues.lapresse.ca/remparts/...-les-remparts/
According to the NHL/CHL agreement he cannot play in the AHL or NHL this season:
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Players drafted and playing for CHL teams are ineligible to play in the professional minor leagues (AHL, ECHL) until they are 20 years old (by December 31st of that year)
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If the player is assigned to the CHL after October 1, he was forced to be there for the whole season until his team was eliminated (baring an emergency injury situation for his NHL team).
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His NHL contract should in theory bar him from playing in the KHL as there is an agreement between the two leagues not to sign a player with a contract in the other league. However, the KHL has been to known bend rules for high profile Russian players returning home.