NHL.com: Carolina Hurricanes GM Don Waddell said that contract extension talks with pending unrestricted free agent defenseman Dougie Hamilton will wait until the offseason.
“We’ve both decided that it would be best for both sides to just wait until the end of the year,” Hurricanes general manager Don Waddell said on the “DFO Rundown” podcast Monday. “Let’s sit down and see if we can hammer out a deal, put it on the back burner so Dougie can worry about playing hockey at this point.
“We’ve talked to him.