When forward Kasperi Kapanen got the call from Maple Leafs general manager Kyle Dubas on Tuesday morning informing him that he had been traded, he wasn't entirely surprised.
"You hear lots of rumors, especially for me it's been that way for quite some time," he said in a video call with reporters after the trade.
Kapanen said that when he woke up on Tuesday, he first saw some reports online that the Leafs were nearing a trade before he got the call from Dubas confirming the news. He had been traded back to Pittsburgh, the team that drafted him six years ago.