Here’s a Leafs positive in this lockout – watching Mikhail Grabovski, Nikolai Kulemin and Leo Komarov play (on the same lines) and produce alongside the likes of Pavel Datsyuk, Evgeni Malkin, Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom over in the KHL. Provided they don’t end up seriously injured, it can only bode well for those three whenever Leafs hockey gets underway again.
After the jump are the latest KHL highlights courtesy of Steve Dangle:
Grabovski scores in a 4-1 Red Army win:
Kulemin and Malkin tearing it up in a 7-2 win by the dominant Magnitogorsk:
Komarov, playing on a line with Backstrom and Ovechkin, scores in a 3-1 Dynamo Moscow win:














![John Gruden after the Leafs prospects’ 4-1 win over Montreal: “[Vyacheslav Peksa] looked really comfortable in the net… We wouldn’t have won without him” John Gruden, head coach of the Toronto Marlies](https://mapleleafshotstove.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/gruden-post-game-sep-14-218x150.jpg)


















