This is an interesting question for sure and one that I find quite difficult to answer if I'm honest. A loooooooot of things have happened over the years since I've joined the league but at the same time, most of them have also made sense and you could kinda see them coming and over the years the SHL has become quite the slow-moving behemoth, so most change was slow and gradual rather than radical and quick. In terms of actual hockey events there were some more surprises of course, rebuilding teams trading whole classes of draft picks to take a shortcut in their rebuild, Jack Crasher promising every team to sign with them and then going AWOL, and others. Sadly there hasn't been a ton of these surprises lately as things seem to become more and more predictable, with the same teams fighting for the Championship season after season and the trade market being rather slow, as people mostly prefer to play with their friends instead of chasing opportunities, ice time or big contracts elsewhere.