Evaluating the handful of bubble players who logged minutes for the Hurricanes this season is a challenge when sometimes the most charitable thing you can say is, “well, he sure did exist.”
It’s no one’s fault, really, that none of today’s profiled players were able to distinguish themselves much over the course of the season. The necessity of having a taxi squad meant that players who otherwise would have served veteran roles in the AHL instead got to hang out in the not-quite-NHL, waiting for the opportunity to do anything other than practice.
Joakim Ryan, Drew Shore and Sheldon Rempal all logged a handful of NHL games over the course of the season, joining the Hurricanes when injuries and COVID issues began to take their toll on the roster.