Carrick who was one of eight RFAs remaining on the team unsigned, now has a contract.
He is 24, and not quite the youth we think of him as, and he played only 47 games last year, with no playoff action. He played 67 games the year before. Lost in the shuffle of new signings Andreas Borgman, Calle Rosen, and the promotion of Travis Dermott, that situation hasn’t gotten much better this season with the addition of fellow-righty Igor Ozhiganov.
That amount is a: more than Martin Marincin made last year, b: much more than his qualifying offer of $892,500, and c: would seem to push the cost of Andreas Johnsson up quite a bit.