The Carolina Hurricanes do love their Finns. So much so that when they felt the need to send Erik Haula to Florida along with Lucas Wallmark, they quickly found a replacement Finn in Sami Vatanen in order to maintain healthy levels of Finland on the roster.
Vatanen, however, has yet to play a single game for the team coming from New Jersey injured and looking to get healthy again. In return, the Carolina Hurricanes sent prospects Fredrik Claesson and Janne Kuokkanen along with a conditional fourth-round pick.
While the conditions on the pick requires Vatanen to play five regular-season games, which doesn’t look like it may happen, the pick automatically upgrades to a 2020 3rd round pick if Vatanen plays in 12 regular-season games, or if Carolina makes the playoffs and he plays in 70% of their playoff games.