With a new three-year contract in hand, Mike Green is eager to get back to being one of the NHL's elite defensemen. Despite a pair of injury-plagued seasons, the Capitals re-signed Green to a three-year contract worth $18.25M Monday. He'll make $6M in each of the next two seasons and $6.25M in 2014-15. The deal came just a couple of days after Green had turned down the team's qualifying offer.