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Carolina Hurricane's - Year 1 End + Draft + FA

Posted on May 30, 2014 at 09:47 PM.

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So after the half way stage, the Carolina Hurricanes with their somewhat crippled team finish the season 41-31-10 for 92 points. By some other GM saves that wasn't half bad but we narrowly missed out in the Metro division finals.

Simmed ahead to the Draft!! We have 2 first round picks (Buffalo and Carolina). From the Scouting report, and knowing I only have 1 phone, I need a decent 1st pick from someone else and a second. The players I am looking for are ones I know will work and one who I am taking a punt on.

M. Dal Colle
W. Nylander
B. Siebenaler
J. Honka

So we advance in and Carolina has the 12 and 27th picks. San Jose has a 7th overall so a high 2nd as well. Im thinking of throwing R. Murphy (OFD - 71 - 4Y*) under the bus for this, he's getting upgraded one way or another. But apart from that it's going to be difficult matching what they want in return. In the end I attempt:

Carolina Sends:

D - R. Murphy
LW - B. McGunn (3 green, good value)
LW - Z. Boychuk (Can get better in free agency)
2014 - 3rd (72)
2014 - 2nd (42)

San Jose Sends:

C - T. Oleksuk (Trade Fodder)
RW - B. Reid (Trade Fodder)
2014 - 1st (7)
2014 - 2nd (36)

And... Z. Boychuk is for renewal and it falls

To make matters even worse, I miss both Siebenaler (6th overall) and Dal Colle (11th)... Grrrr. We do get Nylander, disappointing all the same. So I just pick up Honka now to make sure I have him. We will be busy in Free Agency this year it seems!

Thankfully with the resigning of contracts comes ridding of people! We are about to say goodbye to half the roster mark my words!

Like I always do, start at the back... Justin Peters is gone, can replace him in FA. We did sign yet another 3.5 star goalie with the second round pick I had left.
No re-signs.

Defense, dropping Hainsey, and a lot of 3 star and below players. We have J. Pitkanen, A. Sustr and Honka to sign up now!

Right Wingers, Dvorak is gone. Have to sign Nylander just.

LW, It kills me to do it considering all the magic he did in NHL 13 but Gerbe is gone. D. Bowman, Z. Boychuk (damn you!) are getting signed.

Centers, Malhotra is gone, I want to REALLY toughen up the bottom 3. Tlusty and Loktionov are getting re-signed (The latter a trade asset).

And oh my god. Free Agency is dire. Nothing worth talking about bar Tomas Vokoun!! I sign Bobby Robins (ex Belfast Giants player, had to!) Carl Nielsen and Zach Stortini to long term toughness contracts (sub 1 Mil for each). We get all three and Tomas Vokoun so I can sell off the other 3.5 star goalies and get someone else in. This is nothing short of disappointing. But turns out the OFD I missed out on was only 4 star so he would likely have been a trade asset for when I have the line how I like it.

No real choice but to sim on sadly, I don't have the assets to trade to make the team contendors, nor are we. So Fly through the next season and see if we can get another big piece of the puzzle with a draft pick. A second C. McDavid without over expending to get the first pick!? Stay tuned :P