2024 NHL GM Report Cards – Carolina Hurricanes Off-Season Review
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Let me know your thoughts on the Canes off season
They will take a step back this coming season, but the prospect pool is deep, and will climb back better starting in 2025-26.
Pesce took a major step back this year. I think walker is a better player at this stage so I think the devils over paid for pesce and the canes made some genius decisions. Also skjei was overpaid and the canes were smart not to overpay him with nikishin about to come over soon and start tearing up the league. Anyone crying the canes are in a bad spot should 🤫 there gonna be more then fine.
Hey man I'm a huge Hurricanes fan and I didn't like what they lost but I like who they added..but resign Jarvis for sure and then we still need another top 6 scoring forward 😎✔✔✔
acquire top six center like Crosby from Pittsburgh or Tavares from Toronto?
Until the Canes add some size & physicality up the middle they're going nowhere. Probably have the weakest group of Centers in the NHL. Aho gets dominated by the larger, stronger elite Centers in the league every year in the playoffs as he's too small to hang with the Kreider's, Barkov's, & Bennett's of the world. Kotkaniemi is a $45m waste of space & arguably the worst Center in the NHL. Jordan Staal is a a snail with brick hands & no scoring ability who at this stage of his career & is barely a 4th liner while also way overpaid at $3m just as is Martinook. And Drury is just another under-sized forward on a a roster that's chalk full of them. Meanwhile every forward prospect that they draft is about 5'8" & 160 lbs.
No surprise that Waddell's only viable option was to migrate to the weakest organization in hockey in Columbus. Dude has cost Dundon a fortune between the $45m wasted on Kotkaniemi, complete over-pay for Orlov at $7.8m, over-paid $5.33m AAV for Burns who's worn-out & shot by the time the playoffs roll around every year, Svech is not worth anywhere near his eight year contract & plays like a penalty generating bot way too often, the Pacorietty signing in 2023 was like throwing $7m out of a window & same for Kase at $2m, Jake Gardiner's four year contract was a joke, Freddie Andersen was never going to be the answer in the playoffs, six year deal for Carrier was delusional, & Jarvis is just a Teravainen clone (great right up until the playoffs then way too small to close the deal). And why did the team award Slavin with an eight year deal at age 31 (completely unnecessary for a stay at home D-Men who doesn't contribute much on the offense end)?
Then the organization passed on both Trocheck & Nino which also reflected some incredibly questionable judgment. Meanwhile Skjei, Pesce, Guentzel, Kuznetsov, & Noesen all told Dundon & RBA to pound sand. Their PK & PP are abysmal in the playoffs every April & May because of the teams lack of size & grit especially among their top six fowards.
The only legitimate star & exciting player on on the team is Marty Necas.