The NHL star penned a new blog for Derek Jeter's The Players' Tribune, getting candid about being traded from the Ottawa Senators to the Nashville Predators in 2011 and what it meant for his marriage to Carrie Underwood.

Fisher describes being "crushed" to get the news that he was being traded after more than a decade of playing for the Sens -- until he learned that the team owner had consciously chosen to send him to Nashville to be with Underwood. The couple had tied the knot less than one year earlier.

READ: Carrie Underwood Reveals What Makes Her Feel Sexiest and More in ET's Speed Round

"Talk about some life-changing words," he writes. "I could have been going to 28 other cities, but I was actually going to Nashville, where I could finally be with my wife full-time."

The pair's newlywed year was spent splitting time between Ottawa and Nashville. "It wasn't easy," Fisher adds. "I knew I was incredibly blessed to be going to Nashville."

"They could have traded me anywhere, but they were genuinely looking out for me and my family. That’s what makes hockey such a special sport, even at the NHL level," he muses. "Yes, it’s a business, but the amount of good human beings I’ve run across in this sport is just incredible."