The Carolina Hurricanes wouldn’t be denied their highly-coveted right-handed defense on trade deadline day, even if it wasn’t a big name that many had expected.
It wasn’t Josh Manson. It wasn’t Colin Miller. It wasn’t David Savard.
It was Jani Hakanpää.
Now, if you’re a normal person, you probably had some variation of this reaction...
It only takes a little digging to find out what the Hurricanes saw in the big Finnish blueliner, though, and today we will break it down and figure out why the Canes made the move.