This is the first installment in a series focusing on players that you may have forgotten ever wore the sightless eye of the Carolina Hurricanes. To fit the criteria, a player had to have shown some promise in the NHL before their short stints in Raleigh.
Jan Hlavac had the tools necessary to carve out a decent NHL career and, it many aspects you can say that he did. The truth is, you don’t suit up for 436 games without doing something right. The thing with Hlavac is that he teased a level of offense early in his career that he was never able to revisit.