Sep 19: Menell has indeed signed a one-year contract with Dynamo Moscow, becoming only the third American-born player to join them in team history.
Sep 14: It wasn’t so long ago that Brennan Menell was considered an up-and-coming defenseman who would soon push for NHL playing time. Undrafted, he had become a star for the Iowa Wild of the AHL, and even got into five games with the Minnesota Wild. Now, it appears he’s headed back to the KHL, as Sport-Express is reporting that he has signed a contract with Dynamo Moscow.
Menell, 25, already spent one season overseas, playing the 2020-21 campaign with Dinamo Minsk. He was outstanding for the KHL club that year, registering the most assists by any KHL defenseman and finishing with 38 points in 47 games. He was even better in the playoffs where he had seven points in five games, but that success didn’t follow him back to North America.
In easily his worst professional season to date, Menell had just 11 points in 38 games split between the Toronto Marlies and Lehigh Valley Phantoms.
Perhaps that is why he’s headed back overseas, along with the fact that he became a Group VI unrestricted free agent this summer. There just hasn’t been much NHL opportunity for the smooth-skating Menell, who is a classic example of offensive defensemen not being able to crack into the higher level as a depth option. Still just 25, it likely isn’t the last we’ve heard of him.
Wouldn’t mind seeing him back in LHV to be honest.
Don’t trouble yourself over the 440 Ukrainian citizens that were just found in a mass grave.. Hopefully your rubles will be worth squat by the time you get to spend them.
Do some homework and learn how many innocent citizens in the Donbas and Luhansk regions of Ukraine have been killed over the past 8 years by the Ukraine military. The Ukraine government has been a rogue killing machine years but you don’t know this. Oh, and the ruble has greatly appreciated in value since Diapers Biden and his European pals decided to lay down their big, bad sanctions. Now, European businesses are folding because of lack of energy or skyrocketing costs and citizens are headed for a long cold winter.