In 2019, the Carolina Hurricanes traded one of the best defensemen in the history of the organization away. We had known this was coming for a while, as his name had been in the rumor mills forever, but when Justin Faulk was eventually traded, there was a sense that the blade hanging over the head of the Canes leading point producer from the back end had dropped.
Many people look back at Faulk’s time in Raleigh and deem it a failure because they associate Faulk with the ten years of mediocrity. But the truth is, the South St Paul, Minnesota native never did anything or said anything that would damage the appearance of the team.