Adam Clendening is not a name that you'd ever consider among the NHL's most underrated players. You definitely wouldn’t consider his name among the most important free-agency signings, nor among the best defensemen in the NHL either.
For the Arizona Coyotes, though, his free-agent signing on the first day of the Free Agent Frenzy was an under-the-radar pickup that could be looked back upon as one of the cleverest of the free-agency period.
But who is Adam Clendening?
Clendening is a 6 foot, 196lb, right-shot defenseman from the town of Niagara Falls, NY.