When Bo Horvat was traded to the New York Islanders earlier this season, he lamented the end of his time with the Vancouver Canucks.
"I thought I was going to be a Canuck for life, to be honest with you. Things just didn't work out that way," he said, before signing a $68 million contract extension with the Islanders, as an example of things working out in unexpected ways.
Horvat was selected ninth overall in the 2013 NHL draft by the Canucks. In what will go down as one of NHL commissioner Gary Bettman's cheekiest moments, he cut through the traditional booing at Prudential Center in New Jersey by saying he had a trade to announce and "I think you're gonna wanna hear this.