It is not a huge surprise that the Pittsburgh Penguins traded forward Michael Bunting.
That always seemed like a possible outcome from the moment he was acquired as part of the Jake Guentzel trade at the deadline a year ago. The surprise is that they traded him to a Nashville Predators team that is also out of the playoff race, and that they received two veteran players that also have term remaining on their contract in forward Thomas Novak and defenseman Luke Schenn.
It is a surprising trade in the sense that it is two non-playoff teams dealing veteran players that all have term remaining on their contracts.