Back in April 2019, the Rangers made a trade that has turned out to give the team one of their most prominent defensive players of the 2019-2020 season thus far.
The Calgary Flames drafted Adam Fox 37th overall in the 2016 Entry Draft. They then traded his rights in the same deal that also sent Dougie Hamilton and Michael Ferland to the Carolina Hurricanes.
After finishing out the 2019 season with Harvard University (whose NCAA Tournament run ended in a loss), the ECAC Player Of The Year and Hobey Baker Award Finalist elected to exercise his power under NHL’s collective bargaining agreement and informed the Hurricanes he would not sign with the franchise.