We saw the rich get richer this off-season when the Carolina Hurricanes signed highly touted college free agent defenseman Chase Priskie to a two-year entry-level deal. After completing his senior year at Quinnipiac University this past spring, Priskie’s professional career is just getting started with the Charlotte Checkers.
Becoming a free agent after opting not to sign with the Washington Capitals, the team which originally drafted him in the sixth round of the 2016 NHL Draft, Chase had a chance to sign anywhere in the league.
He could have signed with another team that had a much weaker defensive core, guaranteeing himself a jump into the NHL, but, instead he chose to put his development first and signed with an organization with one of the deepest blue lines in the league, even if that ment playinf in the AHL’s Charlotte Checkers.