After taking him in the top 10 of the 2014 draft, the Hurricanes took the slow and steady approach with Haydn Fleury. He played two more seasons in Red Deer before making his pro debut with the Charlotte Checkers in 2016-17.
After a full season in the AHL, he was up and down between the Hurricanes and Checkers the next two years, playing sparingly at the NHL level and a key role in the Checkers’ Calder Cup Championship run in 2018-19.
At the start of the 2019-20 season, Fleury was arguably ready for a bigger role, but often found himself a healthy scratch on the Hurricanes’ crowded blueline.