Taylor Hall has come a long way from his Hart Trophy win as the most valuable player in the NHL with the New Jersey Devils in 2017-2018.
He’s come even further since he was selected first overall by the Edmonton Oilers in the 2010 draft, immediately burdened with the Sisyphean task of attempting to lift what was at the time a deeply lost franchise out of the wilderness.
When he was traded to the Carolina Hurricanes from the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday night, he joined the seventh different franchise of his career, and his fifth in the last seven seasons.