When the 2015-2016 season was about to begin, Brandon Saad had been traded away to Columbus, and the two biggest questions were how would Marko Dano and Artemi Panarin fit in with the team and would they even make the opening day roster.
The Panarin saga was bigger than Dano’s because there were rumors that if Panarin didn’t make the team out of training camp, he was heading back to Russia. Well, Dano barely played in Chicago while Panarin easily made the team even with an injury during training camp and never looked back.