It takes a unique situation for a team captain to get traded mid-season.
It happened with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Dion Phaneuf earlier this month and the Winnipeg Jets dealt captain Andrew Ladd to the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday.
Ladd, an impending unrestricted free agent, was one of the most popular players in Winnipeg after the Jets relocated from Atlanta and Jets fans paid their respects once news of the trade officially broke.
Here’s some of the best tweets:
Fans in Chicago were pretty excited to re-acquire the versatile forward: