It is the voice of a content man at the other end of a phone line in Kazan, Russia.
It was a difficult decision to leave the Montreal Canadiens, but Andrei Markov sounded Thursday like a person very much happy in his life, freshly married this summer and living with his three youngest children.
Oh, and it doesn’t hurt his KHL club, AK Bars Kazan, is in first place in the Eastern Conference.
After 16 years with the Habs, the adjustment to KHL hockey hasn’t been too difficult.
“It’s not bad, we have a pretty good team,’’ Markov told The Athletic.