Every year on June 1, Twitter lights up with the names of a smattering of prospects who did not agree to contracts with the clubs that drafted them, making them eligible for re-selection in the upcoming NHL Draft. It typically isn’t a big deal; teams or a member of the local media tweet that a player, maybe two, will not be signed to a contract and will re-enter the draft, everyone nods and moves along, and that’s that.
It almost never prompts a press release from a team - that is, unless the team is the Carolina Hurricanes and the unsigned player is Frederik Andersen.