As we draw closer to the Stanley Cup Finals, only two teams are left fighting for Lord Stanley’s Cup. The Carolina Hurricanes are not one of them after they were eliminated in the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs for a second straight year. So now what? Well, there is the NHL draft, but that is a major spin of the roulette wheel so let us look ahead a little further to NHL free agency.
Free agency opens on July 13th at midday Eastern and there are a lot of players currently looking for new destinations. We’ve got three players that hit the eighty-point mark set to become unrestricted free agents.