The Calgary Flames have a lot of centres. This time a year ago, one of those centres was Corban Knight, just coming off of his first professional season that showed he had some potential. He was just one of many, though, and ultimately ended up traded for a younger, better right-shooting centre: Drew Shore.
The Flames upgraded Knight for Shore at no real cost to themselves, and suddenly, had another NHL body: a body that was about to require waivers to be sent down.
Shore had played 67 NHL games for the Florida Panthers by the time he was traded, just a few games away from losing waiver exemption.