Hurricanes Sacrificing Top Player to Make Room For Karlsson
The Hurricanes have been heavily pursuing reigning Norris Trophy winner Erik Karlsson via trade, and it feels like we're nearing a conclusion. An unintended consequence of this heavy pursuance might be that Carolina has to move out one of the top players, and it looks like they've found their guy.
Carolina Shopping Teravainen
Elliotte Friedman has just reported that the Hurricanes are actively shopping Teravainen to other teams in an attempt to make room under the cap limit for Erik Karlsson.
While it wouldn't be the first time we've seen a team move a player who is by all accounts a great player solely to make cap room, we can't say we agree with it.
Dumping His Contract
When the poster of the original Tweet was asked if this was going to be a cap dump or an actual trade with real assets going both ways, they gave a concerning response.
Karlsson is an amazing player, but losing Teuvo for nothing just to acquire Karlsson would be terrible asset management. We saw it last offseason when Calgary traded Sean Monahan to Montreal for Future Considerations, and had to give Montreal a 1st round pick just to take Monahan. Monahan bounced back quite quickly with the Habs and has already re-signed there.
We trust Don Waddell, but have to wonder what his plan is here.
As Seen on Blade of Steel - Carolina Hurricanes potentially moving on from star player as a cap casualty
| POLL | ||
JUILLET 20 | 235 ANSWERS Hurricanes Sacrificing Top Player to Make Room For Karlsson Would the Hurricanes be wrong to trade Teravainen for nothing? | ||
| Yes | 184 | 78.3 % |
| No | 51 | 21.7 % |
| LIST OF POLLS | ||
| G | A | PTS | ||
| Jason Robertson | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Chandler Stephenson | - | 3 | 3 | |
| Sebastian Aho | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Jalen Chatfield | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Mikael Granlund | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Roope Hintz | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Wyatt Johnston | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Brandon Montour | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| William Nylander | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Mitch Marner | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Jaden Schwartz | - | 2 | 2 | |
| John Tavares | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Jamie Benn | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Evgeny Dadonov | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Yanni Gourde | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Pontus Holmberg | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Fraser Minten | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Ryan Poehling | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Jack Roslovic | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Daniel Sprong | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Complete stats | ||||
| STANDINGS 2024-2025 | ||||||
TOP 10 | GP | W | L | OL | PTS | |
Jets | 19 | 16 | 3 | - | 32 | |
Hurricanes | 18 | 14 | 4 | - | 28 | |
Capitals | 18 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 27 | |
Wild | 18 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 27 | |
Maple Leafs | 20 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 26 | |
Devils | 21 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 26 | |
Rangers | 17 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 25 | |
Panthers | 19 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 25 | |
Stars | 18 | 12 | 6 | - | 24 | |
Golden Knights | 19 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 24 | |
| Conference | Cumulative | ||||||