Thrown in as a cap dump in the Max Pacioretty deal, expectations weren’t exactly high for Dylan Coghlan this season, but they might have been set too high anyway.
Coghlan was acquired with the intention of him being the sixth defenseman, but even that was too high a bar to clear; instead, the Canes signed Calvin de Haan out of training camp and put him in as part of a three-man revolving door on the third pairing with de Haan and Jalen Chatfield. (Did you realize he played a minute per game on the power play when he was in the lineup?