The Carolina Hurricanes locked up their most important free agent in coach Rod Brind'Amour less than week after exiting the NHL playoffs. The Hurricanes now face tough work ahead with numerous key free agents ,including forward Jake Guentzel. There's also defensemen Brett Pesce and Brady Skjei.
Carolina Hurricanes ’ Martin Necas , left, celebrates his goal against the New York Rangers with Dmitry Orlov, center, and Jack Drury during the first period in Game 6 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup second-round playoff series in Raleigh, N.C., Thursday, May 16, 2024.
Brind’Amour is a franchise fixture who captained Carolina to the 2006 Cup and won the Jack Adams Award as the league’s top coach in 2021, saying it was “hard for me to envision doing this anywhere else.” And he dismissed the idea that Carolina’s approach could be better built for regular-season success — Carolina ranked second in the NHL over the last four seasons with 420 points — than winning the Cup.
Guentzel’s arrival was viewed as a final-piece move for this season. He had 12 goals and 34 points in 28 regular-season and postseason games, but the 29-year-old will be one of the top names on the free-agency market. There’s also Necas, a 2017 first-round pick who has blossomed into an offensively gifted forward and is just 25. Waddell called him “an exceptionally skilled player that has a lot more to give,” and shrugged off a report out of Europe in which Necas’ father said his son would prefer to be traded.
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