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Habs honouring Andrei Markov before the game tonight. Bergevin really ####ed up that one. From Sportsnet:

But after Markov failed to gain any traction on those negotiation terms, he finally bent, telling Bergevin he’d take a one-year deal.

It was never offered, so Markov opted for a two-year deal with the KHL’s AK Bars Kazan to play the remainder of a career that started roughly 900 kilometres away, in Voskresensk, just outside Moscow.

If Canadiens owner Geoff Molson didn’t feel good about it then, he had to have felt horrible months later — after 39-year-old Mark Streit was signed for pennies on the dollar to end up dressing for only two games before having his contract torn up.

Woe, Joe Morrow! And David Schlemko, Brandon Davidson, Rinat Valiev, Brent Lernout, Jakub Jerabek …

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article...andrei-markov/