Most people typically do not associate “extreme events” with the solar minimum. However, the declining (postmaximum) phase of the solar cycle is notorious for unusually energetic events, and the most recent solar cycles are no exception. Additionally, the solar minimum poses space weather challenges of its own; the most recent solar minimum was the longest and deepest of the space age, and some are forecasting another extended minimum. This session will focus on the "last gasp" of energetic phenomena associated with the declining phase of the cycle, space weather during solar minimum, and implications for forecasting extreme events for the upcoming solar cycles.