In Febuary of 2016, the Montreal Canadiens were in a rough spot. The team wasn’t playing well and were without star goaltender Carey Price. The team eventually finished in a lottery position, drafting Mikhail Sergachev ninth overall in that draft, but seeing the season headed for failure as the trade deadline approached, Marc Bergevin made a move with the future in mind.
That move was sending playoff cult hero Dale Weise and Tomas Fleischmann to the Chicago Blackhawks for Phillip Danault and a second-round pick. At the time, the biggest name in the trade was Weise, whose timely, albeit unsustainable, play had endeared him to the Canadiens fanbase, especially as he drove the much hated Milan Lucic insane over the course of two seasons.