From season fifty nine something that was really unexpected was having Mats Marner traded from the Calgary Dragons to the San Francisco Pride. Marner has played his entire SHL career so far with the Calgary Dragons and while there were uncertainties in a contract year with the way things were going for the Dragons in the regular season he thought that he would be sticking around long term with the team if they had some playoff success. On the trade deadline day with less then twelve hours to go Marner received a call from general manage Mike Izzy who informed him that he wanted to trade Marner to a rebuilding young promising Pride team. Marner never envisioned himself playing for a team that was just beginning to come out of a rebuild but wanted to comply with whatever plans Izzy had so he waived his no trade clause and gave the Pride a chance and see if it could be a place Marner could play long term. So far the Pride franchise has had an amazing first impression in all areas and have been a class act in welcoming Marner with open arms.