It's a strange thing, the trade deadline.
Some players ride a hype machine for all they're worth to be traded for a value far greater than they could expect at any time of the year (we're looking at you, Kris Russell) - others are traded for probably their fair value (we're looking at you, too, Dan Hamhuis).
And some are absolute bargains, hidden away behind the hype of top players and contract extension talks - players that simply slip through the net because nobody takes the time to look at them.
The 25 year-old from Burnaby, BC has quietly developed into a very useful player seemingly unnoticed by anybody outside Ottawa.