After watching Chris Drury, Daniel Briere and Brian Campbell leave during the past year, the Sabres were determined to keep Ryan Miller off the list of high- profile departures.

The Sabres locked up their franchise goalie with a five-year, $31.25 million extension, ending speculation that Miller might be gone after this season and the end of his contract.

Miller, who turned 28 on Thursday, will make $6.25 million each year through the 2013- 14 season.

"He's established himself as one of the top young goaltenders," general manager Darcy Regier said. "When you're talking about conference finals, playoff wins, what he's done in the playoffs, what he's done in his career . . . when you look at his history, it's not about potential. This is a goaltender that we believe in."

When former co-captains Drury and Briere bolted Buffalo in July 2007 as free agents, Miller quickly become the team's leader on and off the ice.

CONTRACTS SUSPENDED: Predators forward Alex Radulov was one of six players whose new contracts were suspended by hockey's international governing body Friday until the legality of the deals could be investigated.

Radulov, under contract for another season with the Predators, signed a contract with a Russian team in the new Continental Hockey League, or KHL. That deal seemingly would be in breach of a pact agreed to July 10 between the KHL, the NHL, the NHL Players' Association and international hockey leagues in which contracts worldwide would be honored and respected.

But the KHL contends that the deal between Radulov and his KHL team was reached two days before the leagues agreed to obey existing contracts.

"It's irrelevant whether there was an agreement or not, the man has a contract with an NHL club," NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly told The Associated Press. "They should have been respecting contracts. We have historically always respected contracts regardless of who those contracts are with.

"We have made it very, very clear that if Radulov isn't returned, if his contract isn't voided and he isn't returned to Nashville, we have no interest in sitting down at the table, no interest in cooperating, no interest in doing anything with the KHL."

THERRIEN SIGNS NEW DEAL: The Penguins' march to the Stanley Cup Finals has paid off for coach Michel Therrien, who agreed to a new three-year contract.

The deal includes a raise for this season and goes through the 2010-11 season.