Not so many truly unexpected events have happened in my career. I have never been traded and never won anything interesting either, so in that sense my career has been relatively uneventful compared to others. If I go back to the early years, what could be seen as unexpected was after my second season with the Lethbridge Lions (to the younger ones among us, now known as the Newfoundland Berserkers) that my GMs basically disappeared off the face of the earth (we still have no idea what happened) and the team was left without anyone running it and then new management came in and traded everyone and everything that they could find new teams for. Of course they did that in order to start a rebuild. It was my first season as a starter and I was hoping for a good season. What happened instead was that I was one of the 2-3 players they couldn't trade and stayed with the Lions. That was a little unexpected to be honest, but I handled it the best way any professional could and played the S48 with the good old 'skeleton crew' (greetings to my North Stars teammate @Massive Coiler here who was part of it then as a rookie). However, it helped my decision to join Toronto the next season instead of staying down longer.