An NHL player can be surprising in a handful of ways. Try as we might, the game isn't played on a computer or spreadsheet. It's played by real human beings out on the ice, chock full of emotions, motivations and complications.
We've attempted to identify each NHL team's most surprising player. There's enough negativity floating around on the interwebs these days, so instead of focusing on both the good and the bad, the choice was made to identify the most positive revelation for each organization.
That turned out to make this exercise a bit more difficult for some teams than others, but in general, this is a list of 32 feel-good(ish) stories from around the league.