Phillip Danault has been on quite the ride in just over three seasons as a Montreal Canadiens player. Acquired from the Chicago Blackhawks in 2016, Danault originally looked to be a project of a player, with minimal NHL time and lacklustre production.
None of that is what you want to see from a first-round pick, especially for a Chicago team in a cap crunch trying to squeeze a few more years out of an aging core. So Danault and a second-round pick were shipped to Montreal in exchange for Dale Weise and Tomas Fleischmann.