Travis Konecny was traded from Ottawa to Sarnia last week. That trade happened, in part, because everybody seems to believe he'll be in the NHL next season.
The Flyers' top forward prospect -- selected by the team in the first round of the 2015 NHL Draft -- was just returning home from the World Juniors in Finland when he got the call. The Ottawa 67's wanted him to waive his no-trade clause in a deal that would send him to the Sarnia Sting.
"To be honest, I felt kind of blindsided," Konecny told the Ottawa Citizen.