Kyle Dubas has a habit of pulling off the unexpected. That’s not to say he doesn’t do some things that we see coming. The Bunting signing was rumoured or speculated as a possibility given his likely affordability and the stereotypical Soo Greyhounds connection. We all knew the Giordano extension was coming, or any of the previous times Spezza re-upped with Toronto the past few years.
But then there are the moves that no one really thought of. Ondrej Kase and Nick Ritchie especially seemed surprising, though that was partly because we didn’t really know they’d be free agents.