I think me getting dinged for tampering and bringing the new Portland Admirals' rebuild to a screeching halt in Season 27 was one of the least expected things. To that end, though, I suppose no punishment is really "expected" even if it's known by the actor that they're doing something wrong.

Me and JP were on a trajectory to create a really good team, since it didn't take too long to contend in the STHS era given what we knew about the meta at the time (this was before things got slightly more broken). I was coming off a historic season and only in my 3rd year in the league. I accidentally PMed Checkmate basically asking him to come to Portland if he was mulling over sticking around in the SHL. It was really dumb, and I shouldn't have reached out at all. There was really no intention to pursue Reginald Howard apart from just seeing what was up, since we had talked before and yeah, I was told to do it. Either way, the punishment came, I just ended up retiring because I couldn't handle all the flack I was getting from dozens of people, and that started a string of horrible luck for the franchise.

I'm really glad that the Pride are turning things around, and I hope to see them competing pretty much perennially now.