When the Montréal Canadiens shockingly made it to the Stanley Cup final, they did so without the player who has led them in scoring in the past three seasons cumulatively. The weird thing about this isn’t that they were able to overcome the absence of a prominent player, but that this absence was totally voluntary. For the second time in the past four seasons, a perfectly healthy Tomáš Tatar watched his team make a deep playoff run from the press box.

Tatar is an unrestricted free agent on July 1st, and a reunion with the Canadiens seems highly unlikely. This makes the Slovak winger one of the most intriguing names on the market, a player with a proven track record of regular season success but with his value undermined by team decision-making in the post-season. For organizations looking t