Ever since Alexander Radulov’s KHL team, Salavat Yulaev Ufa, was eliminated from the post season late last week, rumors swirled that the right wing could possibly return to the NHL to fulfill the final year of his entry-level contract with the Nashville Predators.

Even before Radulov’s team had been eliminated from the post-season, David Boclair of The City Paper asked whether or not Radulov was the missing piece to Nashville’s Stanley Cup puzzle. Boclair notes that the Predators have always maintained that they would welcome him back and that it is a different team now than the one he left four years ago.

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