While the additions that the Carolina Hurricanes have made to their blue line and goalie tandem have attracted most of the attention so far this offseason, they have made a pair of additions to their forward group to help bolster the depth that losing players like Brock McGinn, Warren Foegele, and Morgan Geekie, among others, has created.
Today, we’re breaking down the free agency signings of Derek Stepan and Josh Leivo, a pair of bottom-six players who have gone on wildly different career paths but have both landed on the 2021-22 Hurricanes roster.
Derek Stepan
From 2010 to 2018, very few players in the NHL were as consistently productive as Stepan, who broke into the league and established himself as a high-quality top-six center with a perennial contender in the New York Rangers.