Andrei Markov is on the verge of hitting an incredible milestone should he come to terms with the Montreal Canadiens for the upcoming season. He is currently 10 games shy of playing 1000 games with the Habs, and would become the first to hit that milestone since Bob Gainey.
It would be an incredible accomplishment in this day and age of professional hockey, where players tend to change teams in pursuit of lucrative contracts, while teams have to juggle the restrictions of a salary cap.
If Markov were to hit the 1,000-game milestone, he would be only the sixth player in the franchise’s illustrious history to do so, and the first in 30 years.