2. Carolina Hurricanes
The Carolina Hurricanes have a plethora of defensemen. So naturally, they’re in a good position to give the Vancouver Canucks what they need.
However, I wonder if the Hurricanes would be interested in giving up a defenseman with the Seattle expansion draft coming. Do they basically want to assure themselves of losing two quality defensemen when they could just give up one?
This is the kind of package I think the Hurricanes would be willing to do.
Jake Bean is the centerpiece of this deal. If the Hurricanes didn’t have such a huge surplus of defensemen, he’d be a full-time NHLer right now. Bean has had a lot of success everywhere he has gone. He’d step right into the Canucks lineup and help the Canucks add a young, dynamic piece to their blueline.
Nino Niederreiter is included to make the finances work, but he’s far from a salary dump. He’s capable of playing at either left-wing or right-wing and is a very underrated two-way forward. Niederreiter has been a bit inconsistent as far as production, but the good he does almost always outweighs the bad.
Boeser would be lethal with the Hurricanes. He’d give them yet another impressive goal scorer. More importantly, Boeser shoots right-handed. It’s not a secret the Hurricanes have been looking to add a right-handed shot for a long time.