Hurricanes
Gold: Canes' week busy with draft, free agency and Justin Williams' retirement
It's hasn't been a restful offseason for the Carolina Hurricanes considering all the news that happened off the ice.
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It's hasn't been a restful offseason for the Carolina Hurricanes considering all the news that happened off the ice.
off season. Did you say offseason? I'm not sure there's an offseason. Didn't we just award the Stanley Cup a week ago? We did Tuesday. NHL draft Seth Jarvis, 13th pick for the Hurricanes out of junior hockey, high scoring, energizing player goes real well in the middle of the ice. Not bad. 98 points in 58 games. But he will not turn 19 in the middle of next year, so he'll go back to junior hockey for one more season. We won't see him for at least a year, more than likely to at the at the draft. Also, the NHL announced that they were targeting January 1 for the start of the next season, as well as an 82 game campaign. I wish them well, getting 82 games in between January 1 and the end of July. At the end of the week, free agency began in Carolina. Signed former Ranger forward. Yes, for Fost to a three year, $6 million contract. Good value for a guy who will provide Ah lot of physicality on the right side. He's a great teammate, so he'll fit beautifully in with the Hurricanes in the locker room. There's an opening on the right side because Justin Williams announced his retirement. After 19 spectacular seasons in the league, Williams won three Stanley Cups. He's a playoff MVP, and he is Mr Game seven, right? So all he did in nine career Game seven was his team went eight and one. He scored seven goals, had 15 points. That is an NHL record on If you're Hurricanes fan, you remember three of them. You remember the empty net goal he scored against Edmonton that clinched the Stanley Cup title. But maybe you don't remember the fact that he had a goal and two assists in the Eastern Conference finals in Game seven in a comeback win over the sabers that just put him into the Stanley Cup finals. Then, of course, last year, double overtime his past in front Brock McGinn sent Washington home. So Justin Williams, who has always been a great teammate and a spectacular player number 14 is going up to the rafters and he'll forever be the captain, won't he