from NHL.com,

Andrei Markov will play in the NHL this season, according to his agent.

"I'm very confident there will be a deal for him, and he'll play somewhere this year," Allan Walsh said during the Jonathan Drouin Golf Tournament at Le Club Laval-sur-le-Lac in Laval, Quebec on Thursday.

Markov hired Walsh as his agent Wednesday.

"Things were busy yesterday," Walsh said. "Numerous teams called. They're asking questions about his conditioning, forwarded teams a bunch of videos of him training. There are people who have actually been out to see him skate in Florida and train."

The 40-year-old defenseman played the past two seasons for Kazan in the Kontinental Hockey League. He had 14 points (two goals, 12 assists) in 49 games last season.

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