- Alexandar Georgiev is still unsigned two and a half months after tearing up his KHL deal
- He won 78 games across two seasons in Colorado before his numbers fell apart
- Read below for where his market sits with PTO season about to open
Alexandar Georgiev still doesn’t have a team.
The 30-year-old goaltender tore up the final year of his KHL contract on June 1 to chase another NHL job, and he is still waiting. Aarif Deen of Colorado Hockey Now reported Sunday that Georgiev has no new home with NHL training camps about a month out and the KHL season set to start before that.
His agent, Stanislav Romanov, was asked about the plan when Spartak Moskva let him walk. “The goal is to return to the NHL,” Romanov said. “Alexandar expressed the desire to try himself in the NHL again. There was such an agreement.”
Take a look at how the split was reported out of Russia:
Winning a job back is the hard part. Georgiev won 40 games for the Avalanche in 2022-23, tied for the most in the league, then led the NHL with 38 the following season.
Then his game came apart. He finished 2024-25 with a .874 save percentage in 18 appearances for Colorado and a .875 in 31 games after the trade to San Jose.
Buffalo gave him an $850K deal last fall. He cleared waivers, played two games for AHL Rochester, and terminated the contract to sign in Russia.
In February 2024, the picture looked nothing like this. Georgiev made the 2024 All-Star Game and beat Connor McDavid in the Honda NHL One-on-One, stopping nine of 12 attempts to claim the $100,000 goalie prize.
McDavid was asked afterward about the goalie who had stonewalled him. “Georgiev had my number,” McDavid said. “He was poke-checking, and he was mixing things up. He made it tough for me. He definitely deserved it.”
Catch the full contest here:
Russia did repair the numbers. Georgiev put up a 2.37 goals-against average and a .918 save percentage in 24 games for Spartak, his first season above .900 since that 40-win year in Denver. He added a 2.65 GAA and another .918 across five playoff starts.
| Season | Team | GP | W-L | GAA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | Colorado | 62 | 40-16 | 2.53 | .919 |
| 2023-24 | Colorado | 63 | 38-18 | 3.02 | .897 |
| 2024-25 | Colorado | 18 | 8-7 | 3.38 | .874 |
| 2024-25 | San Jose | 31 | 7-19 | 3.88 | .875 |
| 2025-26 | Spartak (KHL) | 24 | — | 2.37 | .918 |
Every starting job is spoken for and most backup spots are filled. Professional tryouts open with camp next month, and that is the realistic path left for a goalie sitting on 151 NHL wins and no NHL contract.
