- Flyers re-sign Nikita Grebenkin to a two-year contract worth $1.1 million per season
- The 23-year-old winger put up 14 points in 55 games in his first full NHL season
- Read below for the terms and where Grebenkin fits in Philadelphia’s lineup
Nikita Grebenkin is staying in Philadelphia.
The Flyers announced Thursday that they agreed to terms with the restricted free agent winger on a two-year contract carrying a $1.1 million average annual value.
Grebenkin was one of the last pieces of business left on Danny Briere’s desk this summer. The 23-year-old Russian became eligible for a new deal once his entry-level contract ran out, and he had been sitting unsigned into August alongside defenseman Hunter McDonald.
He came to Philadelphia in one of the bigger deadline moves of 2025. Toronto sent Grebenkin and a conditional 2027 first-round pick south for Scott Laughton and a pair of late picks, and the winger finished that year in the AHL before cracking the roster full time.
Those 14 points came in 55 games, four of them goals, and the raw numbers do not tell you much about the season he had. Grebenkin opened the year as a healthy scratch and spent months rotating in and out of Rick Tocchet’s lineup.
When he did play, it was almost always on the fourth line, averaging a shade over 11 minutes a night. Tocchet has been open about wanting more predictability out of him, and the coaching staff talked through his usage all season.
Watch what he did with the ice time he got:
None of it earned him a postseason shift. The Flyers pushed into the second round and Grebenkin never dressed.
His summer at least started on a better note. Grebenkin came out of last season’s injury clean and is expected to be a full participant when camp opens in September.
Philadelphia has been quiet otherwise. The loudest thing the Flyers did all summer was fire a five-year, $90 million offer sheet at Leo Carlsson, and Anaheim matched it the same day.
Two years at $1.1 million is a bet on the version of Grebenkin the Flyers saw in flashes, not the one who watched from the press box in October. He gets a full training camp and a real runway to win a nightly job.
