Montreal Canadiens legend Andrei Markov believes the Canadiens have the best chance of any of Canada’s seven NHL teams to break the country’s 23-season Stanley Cup drought.
There is a funny thing about hockey history. We tend to remember the players who demanded our attention. The big scorers. The loud personalities. The players who made something happen and then made sure everyone knew about it.
Last night, the HabsOnReddit account posted a photo of Andrei Markov. In the photo, he can be seen chatting with a young player. And reading the tweet, it becomes clear that the former Canadiens captain was serving as a mentor for the Russian national team.
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.
Recently honored by the Canadiens, defenseman Andrei Markov is known for being a pretty serious guy. If you see him smiling, keep this image in mind, because it won’t happen often.
On Wednesday night, the Montreal Canadiens held a pre-game ceremony to honour the career of arguably the most consistent defenseman in the Habs organization during the 21st century, Andrei Markov.
Coincidence or not, the Montreal Canadiens delivered their most complete performance in some time on Wednesday, beating the visiting Winnipeg Jets 3-2 in a shootout on the same night they honoured Andrei Markov.
Tonight, the Canadiens paid tribute to Andrei Markov at the Bell Centre. The defenseman, who played 990 games for the Habs, was one of the best players in the club’s recent history.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
The Canadiens are about to take on the Winnipeg Jets. The game will be presented at the Bell Centre… and it’s worth remembering that it’s Andrei Markov’s tribute night, when fans will be introduced to him on site before the game.
The Montreal Canadiens are set to honour one of their former defencemen, Andrei Markov, also known as ‘The General’, during a pregame ceremony ahead of puck drop against the Winnipeg Jets on Dec.
Andrei Markov has had quite a career with the Habs. Despite a few serious injuries, he left his mark and will be rightly honoured next week at the Bell Centre.
Andrei Markov, nearing the end of his NHL career, didn’t have an agent, so he talked to Marc Bergevin himself. I have the impression that the main interested party quickly realized why players have agents, after all, negotiating is hard work.
On Tuesday, the Montreal Canadiens announced their promotional nights at the Bell Centre for the 2025-26 season, and one night stands out above the rest.
This season, the Montreal Canadiens will finally pay tribute to one of the most quietly impactful defensemen in franchise history: Andrei Markov. While
Habs fans are going to be happy, and some of them are going to say, “At last! The Canadiens have announced that there will be a “tribute” to Andrei Markov next season.
He recently returned to the city, attending the game at the Bell Centre last Saturday between his former team and the Washington Capitals. The former number 79 of the team received a warm welcome from the fans.
For the first time since leaving the Montreal Canadiens in 2017, long-time defenseman Andrei Markov was back at the Bell Centre. Markov was a key to the Canadiens’ blue line between 2000 and 2017, but he hadn’t stepped foot in the arena since calling it a career in the NHL.