On January 6th, 2016 the Columbus Blue Jackets and Nashville Predators pulled off a massive trade seemingly out of nowhere. At the time, the Blue Jackets had a struggling blue line and the Predators had an overabundance of defensemen and a lack of scoring. Thus a trade between the two made perfect sense.
The trade sent star Blue Jackets center Ryan Johansen to Nashville in exchange for Seth Jones who seemed like he’d be stuck behind Shea Weber for the long term future with the Predators at the time. Weber has since been traded to Montreal for P.