Going into the season, the Carolina Hurricanes weren’t even planning on giving defenseman Jaccob Slavin, a 2012 4th round draft pick, a shot at the NHL.
The plan was to give Slavin a full year in the AHL and to wait for him to get comfortable with professional hockey coming off of his collegiate career at Colorado College. Plans change.
An injury to established top-4 defenseman James Wisniewski and a set back in the play of Ryan Murphy forced Carolina’s hand, and they were put in a tough situation.