After sounding off to the media about his problems with head coach Jacques Martin, Andrei Kostitsyn is getting a ton of press in and around Canada about whether or not the Montreal Canadiens should ship him out. What better place than to a team that stresses defense-first and is looking for a sniper, a team that has plenty of money being just above the salary cap floor and a team that just so happens to have rebuilt his brother’s career: the Nashville Predators.
The brothers Kostitsyn have played together most of their lives. They played for a spell in the Under-18 and under-20 Belarus hockey teams. They played in the NHL on the Montreal Canadiens from 2007-2010. Andrei, the elder brother by almost two years is a phenomenal scorer posting better-than-average numbers on the Canadiens, while his younger brother, Sergei, posted adequate numbers on the same squad. Sergei is touted as being a junior hockey prodigy that never quite lived up to the hype of coming out of the London Knights ...
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