This was going to be a column taking the Carolina Hurricanes to task for misusing Haydn Fleury.
Now, it’s still an open question about what the best course of action is with the third-year defenseman who’s been a healthy scratch for the past five games and for all but three of the 14 games the Canes have played in the past month. Fleury was, by all accounts, playing the best hockey of his career immediately before Trevor van Riemsdyk returned following shoulder surgery in Anaheim on October 18 - ironically, in the very game where Fleury, at long last, scored his first career NHL goal.