After Trevor van Riemsdyk was acquired by the Vegas Golden Knights in the Expansion draft last June, he was immediately ushered out of town the next day as the Carolina Hurricanes wooed the Golden Knights with the prospect of jumping back into the second round of last years draft. In his first season in Carolina, van Riemsdyk provided a bit more stable production for the third-pairing, but ultimately did not move the needle in the way former General Manager Ron Francis had intended.
Playing mostly with Noah Hanifin and occasionally with rookie Haydn Fleury, van Riemsdyk began the season as one of the more stabilizing figures on the Canes blueline.