If we’ve learned anything about Tradin’ Don Waddell in the year-plus since he took over as the Carolina Hurricanes General Manager, it’s that he likes to make a deal. He loves to wheel and deal and he’s pretty good at it.
From an under-the-radar move last spring that brought Jordan Martinook to Carolina to last summer’s blockbuster that landed Micheal Ferland, Dougie Hamilton and the rights to Adam Fox to the midseason deal for Nino Niederreiter, Waddell has been on a roll. Even the gamble for Fox paid off when he shipped his rights to the New York Rangers for a second-round pick this year and the Rangers’ third or second-round pick in 2020.