In the summer of 2017, thanks to his team’s surplus of defenders and dearth of goal-scorers, Marco Scandella was the topic of numerous trade rumours. One of the loudest involved the Montreal Canadiens, and had general manager Marc Bergevin sending Alex Galchenyuk to the self-proclaimed State of Hockey. At that time, Scandella was firmly entrenched in the Minnesota Wild’s top four, while Galchenyuk had just been relegated to a bottom-six winger role in the playoffs and was thought to be possibly replaceable by the acquisition of Jonathan Drouin.
Long story short, Galchenyuk was too high a price to pay for Bergevin, and Scandella soon found himself a Buffalo Sabres defenceman, exchanged along with Jason Pominville for Marcus Foligno and Tyler Ennis.