On the morning Jan. 17, Swedish defenseman John Nyberg was preparing for the morning skate ahead of his Texas Stars' game against the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins that evening at the H-E-B Center in Cedar Park, Texas.
Nyberg, the Stars' sixth-round pick in 2014, had just played in 19 games for Texas up until that point, seeing infrequent playing time as a result of the Stars' defensive prospect depth. He wasn't in the lineup when Texas hosted Wilkes-Barre two days earlier in the first game of the two-game series.
Nyberg would play that night ... for Wilkes-Barre.