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Chicago trades Versteeg to Carolina

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From Carolina's team site:

Ron Francis, Executive Vice President and General Manager of the National Hockey League?s Carolina Hurricanes, today announced that the team has acquired forwards Kris Versteeg (vuhr-STEEG) and Joakim Nordstrom (JOH-keem NORD-struhm) and a third-round pick in the 2017 NHL Draft in exchange for defensemen Dennis Robertson and Jake Massie and a fifth-round pick in the 2017 NHL Draft.

They had to package him with a 3rd rounder and a 13/14th forward type and got back a 5th and two fillers. Versteeg had a $2.2mil cap hit. Chicago now has just a shade over $1mil in cap space but still needs to sign Marcus Kruger.

Versteeg wasn't a heck of a player or anything, but he was good depth and it's yet another roster guy that Chicago's lost this offseason. Sharp, Saad, Oduya, Richards, Vermette, Versteeg, Nordstrom, Raanta, Timonen. They brought in Anisimov, Dano, and Daley, but those are all downgrades from their top departed players (Sharp, Saad, Oduya). They're really banking on Tikhonov and Panarin adjusted to the NHL and Teravainen taking a big step.

Might be a tough year ahead for the defending champs, especially if Kane gets some bad news in the near future.
 
I mean, I suppose this is how this new NHL is supposed to work.

I'm sure Carolina fans are happy tho'
 

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