The Montreal Canadiens had an interesting offseason in the summer of 2017. They overhauled their left defence by trading Nathan Beaulieu, losing Alexei Emelin in an expansion draft and letting Andrei Markov walk away as a free agent. They also dealt top prospect Mikhail Sergachev that summer as well.
Markov had a tremendous career with the Canadiens before returning to the KHL three years ago. He was drafted in the 6th round of the 1998 NHL Draft as a 19 year old unknown who had never played outside of Russia.