NHL Community: Elliotte Friedman on NHL Tonight when requested about the place issues will begin for the Carolina Hurricanes.
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E.J. Hradek: “I need to go type of across the league with you. You’re all the time centered on all of the totally different tales. Let me ask you about Carolina as a result of, you recognize, Donnie Waddell leaves. They’ve all this inner dialogue about what they’re going to do. It appears to be like like Eric Tulsky goes to have much more to do with every part.
Now he’s already had rather a lot to do with it to start with, however you recognize, the place is job one for the Panthers proper now, excuse me, for the Hurricanes as a result of there’s been all these guys which can be free brokers, some which can be possibly to free company sooner or later, the place do you assume it begins?”
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Friedman: “Nicely, I feel it’s gonna begin with Jaccob Slavin. And Jaccob Slavin has yet one more yr of his contract, and a few weeks in the past, once they bought knocked out of the playoffs, you recognize, we have been doing all these put up mortems and speaking about, you recognize, who’s coming and who’s going and all of the free brokers this yr.
And somebody known as me and so they mentioned, You aren’t trying on the proper man. He says, I assure you the very first thing that Hurricanes will get finished, is they are going to handle Slavin. As a result of he’s, they think about him the perfect defenseman, considered one of their high gamers, a Cornerstone participant, and he’s bought yet one more yr to UFA
And I’m beneath the impression they can not signal an extension with him to July 1st, however I reported it it’s going to occur. They’re going to prolong Slavin. They’re going to get one thing finished with him. So it’s not essentially a job for this yr, however it’s their cap down the long run. They’re gonna handle him.
Now the opposite issues they should do, there’s various levels of confidence on gamers like (Brett) Pesce and (Brady) Skjei. However I feel the opposite one goes to be (Martin) Necas.
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I feel Carolina did have a plan that in the event that they didn’t like what they noticed there that they may carry Necas again. Necas hasn’t mentioned something publicly, however the phrase across the league popping out of the mix is, he doesn’t need to return. And so I feel Carolina is telling groups okay, we’re ready to do that, however we think about Necas as a star. They imagine that exterior of Brind’amour system, he’ll take off and they’re speaking a few return accordingly. They anticipate star energy in return.
