The Montreal Canadiens were well on their way to missing the playoffs for the third consecutive season when the NHL hit the pause button in March. There are various reasons a team would miss the playoffs for three straight campaigns, so there isn’t just one hole that needs to be filled in the construction of the Habs roster.
However, perhaps the biggest void that needs to be fixed is on left defence. A couple of summers ago, Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin chose not to re-sign Andrei Markov, traded Nathan Beaulieu and Mikhail Sergachev and lost Alexei Emelin to the Vegas Golden Knights in the expansion draft.