When Andrei Markov first signed his 3-year 5.75 million dollar contract before the 2014-15 season, the term was the biggest cause for raised eyebrows, and I will admit that there’s a little nagging thought in the back of my head every year that says “is this the year he declines?”
That voice was particularly loud this year, as Markov finished training camp without a concrete place on the 1st pairing of a defense corps still reverberating from the aftershocks of the Subban trade.
Faced with all this, Markov went out and had a Markovian season.