"Markov has been back on skates this week at the team’s training facility in Brossard, working out lightly under the guidance of the team’s head athletic therapist, Graham Rynbend.
It’s the latest step in the defenceman’s second rehabilitation stint from major surgery to the anterior cruciate ligament of his right knee.
Markov was knocked out of last season’s playoffs in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals in Pittsburgh, falling awkwardly into the boards when checked by the Penguins’ Matt Cooke. Surgery by orthopedist Tony Miniaci followed on May 5 in Cleveland, which led to summer-long rehab.
Then, freakishly, Markov wrecked the knee again on Nov. 13, just 11 games into the season and only seven games after he’d returned to action, catching his skate in a Bell Centre rut while jostling for the puck with Carolina’s Eric Staal.
Markov was operated on Dec. 8, this time by James Andrews in Birmingham, Ala., and has been working his way back toward the ice the past three months.
“Of course I’m not going to be the same. I’m going to be better,” Markov told reporters on Jan. 14, meeting reporters in the Canadiens’ Brossard dressing room for the first and only time since his second surgery.""
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