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Karl Subban was getting ready for his morning walk when he first heard about The Trade.

The 59-year-old goes for a walk every morning with a friend near his home in Etobicoke, Ont. — “Just to keep up with the boys … I have to stay in shape,” he said, referring to sons P.K., Malcom and Jordan — and was getting ready to start on that day last June when his cellphone rang.

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“Natasha, our second daughter, called me to say: ‘Daddy, P.K. just called and said he was traded,’ ” Karl recalled. “But you know P.K., we just thought he was joking around. After a couple of seconds of digesting it, I said: ‘Let me check online.’ ”

Karl quickly learned his son had indeed been traded by the Canadiens to the Nashville Predators in exchange for Shea Weber.

“I was disappointed … I was upset,” Karl said Tuesday while in Montreal to promote his new book, How We Did It: The Subban Plan for Success in Hockey, School and Life. “It hit me really hard … like a Shea Weber slapshot. I don’t know how it would feel, but I could just imagine.”