By Bob Ryan

You’re 21, and life is good. You get to play in front of friends and family for the team you rooted for as a kid. And then one day — 25 years ago yesterday, in fact — they call you in and say, “Pack up, son. You’re going to Boston.’’

Whoa.

“I certainly had no idea they were planning on trading me,’’ says Cam Neely, native of Comox, British Columbia, and for the first three years of his NHL career, a member of the Vancouver Canucks. “It came out of the blue.’’ (As an added kicker, he was traded on his birthday).

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