2018–19 Carolina Hurricanes season

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2018–19 Carolina Hurricanes
DivisionTBD Metropolitan
ConferenceTBD Eastern
2018–19 record9–8–3
Home record5–4–2
Road record4–4–1
Goals for53
Goals against59
Team information
General ManagerDon Waddell
CoachRod Brind'Amour
CaptainJustin Williams
Alternate captainsJustin Faulk
Jordan Staal
ArenaPNC Arena
Minor league affiliate(s)Charlotte Checkers (AHL)
Florida Everblades (ECHL)
Team leaders
GoalsMicheal Ferland (10)
AssistsSebastian Aho (17)
PointsSebastian Aho (23)
Penalties in minutesAndrei Svechnikov (16)
Plus/minusSebastian Aho (+8)
WinsCurtis McElhinney (4)
Goals against averageCurtis McELhinney (2.51)
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The 2018–19 Carolina Hurricanes season is the 40th season for the National Hockey League (NHL) franchise that was established on June 22, 1979 (following seven seasons of play in the World Hockey Association), and 22nd season since the franchise relocated from Hartford to start the 1997–98 NHL season.[1]

Standings[edit]

Divisional standings[edit]

Metropolitan Division
Pos Team GP W L OTL ROW GF GA GD Pts
1 Columbus Blue Jackets 20 12 6 2 12 69 63 +6 26
2 New York Islanders 18 10 6 2 9 61 49 +12 22
3 New York Rangers 20 10 8 2 6 61 64 −3 22
4 Washington Capitals 19 9 7 3 8 63 63 0 21
5 Philadelphia Flyers 20 9 9 2 8 63 71 −8 20
6 Carolina Hurricanes 19 8 8 3 7 51 58 −7 19
7 New Jersey Devils 18 8 8 2 8 54 59 −5 18
8 Pittsburgh Penguins 18 7 8 3 7 60 61 −1 17
Updated to game(s) played on November 17, 2018. Source: National Hockey League

Conference standings[edit]

Top 3 (Metropolitan Division)
Pos Team GP W L OTL ROW GF GA GD Pts
1 Columbus Blue Jackets 20 12 6 2 12 69 63 +6 26
2 New York Islanders 18 10 6 2 9 61 49 +12 22
3 New York Rangers 20 10 8 2 6 61 64 −3 22
Top 3 (Atlantic Division)
Pos Team GP W L OTL ROW GF GA GD Pts
1 Tampa Bay Lightning 20 14 5 1 13 74 58 +16 29
2 Toronto Maple Leafs 20 14 6 0 14 70 51 +19 28
3 Buffalo Sabres 20 12 6 2 10 60 56 +4 26
Eastern Conference Wild Card
Pos Div Team GP W L OTL ROW GF GA GD Pts
1 AT Boston Bruins 20 11 6 3 11 58 49 +9 25
2 AT Montreal Canadiens 20 11 6 3 9 66 65 +1 25
3 ME Washington Capitals 19 9 7 3 8 63 63 0 21
4 AT Ottawa Senators 20 9 8 3 9 70 81 −11 21
5 ME Philadelphia Flyers 20 9 9 2 8 63 71 −8 20
6 AT Detroit Red Wings 20 9 9 2 7 57 65 −8 20
7 ME Carolina Hurricanes 19 8 8 3 7 51 58 −7 19
8 ME New Jersey Devils 18 8 8 2 8 54 59 −5 18
9 AT Florida Panthers 17 7 7 3 6 54 57 −3 17
10 ME Pittsburgh Penguins 18 7 8 3 7 60 61 −1 17
Updated to game(s) played on November 17, 2018. Source: National Hockey League

Schedule and results[edit]

Preseason[edit]

The preseason schedule was published on June 12, 2018.[2]

Regular season[edit]

The regular season schedule was released on June 21, 2018.[3]

2018–19 game log
November: 3–3–2 (Home: 2–1–1 ; Road: 1–2–1)
# Date Visitor Score Home OT Decision Attendance Record Pts Recap
13 November 2 Carolina 3–4 Arizona OT Mrazek 10,562 6–5–2 14 Recap
14 November 3 Carolina 0–3 Vegas Darling 18,328 6–6–2 14 Recap
15 November 6 Carolina 1–4 St. Louis McElhinney 16,210 6–7–2 14 Recap
16 November 8 Carolina 4–3 Chicago Darling 21,331 7–7–2 16 Recap
17 November 10 Detroit 4–3 Carolina SO Darling 13,029 7–7–3 17 Recap
18 November 12 Chicago 2–3 Carolina OT Darling 11,221 8–7–3 19 Recap
19 November 17 Columbus 4–1 Carolina Darling 13,040 8–8–3 19 Recap
20 November 18 New Jersey 1–2 Carolina McElhinney 11,211 9–8–3 21 Recap
21 November 21 Toronto Carolina
22 November 23 Florida Carolina
23 November 24 Carolina NY Islanders
24 November 27 Carolina Montreal
25 November 30 Anaheim Carolina

Legend:   Win (2 points)   Loss (0 points)   Overtime/shootout loss (1 point)

Player statistics[edit]

As of October 22, 2018[4]

Skaters[edit]

Regular season
Player GP G A Pts +/− PIM
Sebastian Aho 9 4 10 14 9 2
Micheal Ferland 9 6 3 9 7 9
Teuvo Teravainen 9 1 7 8 7 0
Justin Williams 9 1 7 8 3 8
Jordan Staal 9 4 2 6 3 2
Warren Foegele 9 3 2 5 −1 4
Justin Faulk 9 1 4 5 3 4
Jordan Martinook 9 3 1 4 2 4
Andrei Svechnikov 9 2 2 4 −1 10
Jaccob Slavin 9 0 4 4 −1 0
Brett Pesce 9 2 1 3 7 4
Dougie Hamilton 9 0 3 3 −1 4
Valentin Zykov 7 0 2 2 0 0
Lucas Wallmark 9 1 0 1 −1 6
Calvin de Haan 9 0 1 1 4 8
Trevor van Riemsdyk 8 0 1 1 0 0
Clark Bishop 2 0 0 0 0 0
Phillip Di Giuseppe 2 0 0 0 −2 4
Brock McGinn 9 0 0 0 −4 2

Goaltenders[edit]

Regular season
Player GP GS TOI W L OT GA GAA SA SV% SO G A PIM
Petr Mrazek 5 5 295 2 2 1 13 2.64 116 .888 0 0 0 0
Curtis McElhinney 4 4 240 3 1 0 11 2.76 102 .892 0 0 0 0

Denotes player spent time with another team before joining the Hurricanes. Stats reflect time with the Hurricanes only.
Denotes player was traded mid-season. Stats reflect time with the Hurricanes only.
Bold/italics denotes franchise record.

Roster[edit]

Updated November 17, 2018[5][6]

# Nat Player Pos S/G Age Acquired Birthplace
20 Finland Sebastian Aho RW L 21 2015 Rauma, Finland
64 Canada Clark Bishop C L 22 2014 St. John's, Newfoundland
33 United States Scott Darling G L 29 2017 Newport News, Virginia
44 Canada Calvin de Haan D L 27 2018 Carp, Ontario
7 Canada Phillip Di Giuseppe C L 25 2012 Maple, Ontario
27 United States Justin Faulk (A) D R 26 2010 South St. Paul, Minnesota
79 Canada Micheal Ferland LW L 26 2018 Swan River, Manitoba
4 Canada Haydn Fleury D L 22 2014 Carlyle, Saskatchewan
13 Canada Warren Foegele LW L 22 2014 Markham, Ontario
19 Canada Dougie Hamilton D R 25 2018 Toronto, Ontario
48 Canada Jordan Martinook LW L 26 2018 Brandon, Manitoba
35 Canada Curtis McElhinney G L 35 2018 London, Ontario
23 Canada Brock McGinn LW L 24 2012 Fergus, Ontario
34 Czech Republic Petr Mrazek G L 26 2018 Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
22 United States Brett Pesce D R 24 2013 Tarrytown, New York
49 Sweden Victor Rask Injured Reserve C L 25 2011 Leksand, Sweden
74 United States Jaccob Slavin D L 24 2012 Denver, Colorado
11 Canada Jordan Staal (A) C L 30 2012 Thunder Bay, Ontario
37 Russia Andrei Svechnikov RW L 18 2018 Barnaul, Russia
86 Finland Teuvo Teravainen C L 24 2016 Helsinki, Finland
57 United States Trevor van Riemsdyk D R 27 2017 Middletown, New Jersey
71 Sweden Lucas Wallmark C L 23 2014 Umea, Sweden
14 Canada Justin Williams (C) RW R 37 2017 Cobourg, Ontario
73 Russia Valentin Zykov RW R 23 2016 St. Petersburg, Russia

Transactions[edit]

The Hurricanes have been involved in the following transactions during the 2018–19 season.

Trades[edit]

Date Details Ref
June 23, 2018 (2018-06-23) To New York Rangers
VGK's 7th-round pick in 2018Riley Hughes
To Carolina Hurricanes
BOS' 7th-round pick in 2019
[7]
June 23, 2018 (2018-06-23) To Calgary Flames
Noah Hanifin
Elias Lindholm
To Carolina Hurricanes
Dougie Hamilton
Micheal Ferland
Adam Fox
[8]
August 2, 2018 (2018-08-02) To Buffalo Sabres
Jeff Skinner
To Carolina Hurricanes
Cliff Pu
2nd-round pick in 2019
3rd-round pick in 2020
6th-round pick in 2020
[9]

Free agents[edit]

Date Player Team Contract term Ref
May 1, 2018 (2018-05-01) Andrew Miller to Fribourg-Gottéron (NL) 1-year [10]
June 1, 2018 (2018-06-01) Klas Dahlbeck to CSKA Moscow (KHL) 1-year [11]
July 1, 2018 (2018-07-01) Jake Chelios to Detroit Red Wings 1-year [12]
July 1, 2018 (2018-07-01) Petr Mrazek from Philadelphia Flyers 1-year [13]
July 1, 2018 (2018-07-01) Joakim Nordstrom to Boston Bruins 2-year [14]
July 1, 2018 (2018-07-01) Derek Ryan to Calgary Flames 3-year [15]
July 1, 2018 (2018-07-01) Cam Ward to Chicago Blackhawks 1-year [16]
July 2, 2018 (2018-07-02) Dan Renouf from Detroit Red Wings 1-year [17]
July 3, 2018 (2018-07-03) Calvin de Haan from New York Islanders 4-year [18]
July 9, 2018 (2018-07-09) Jeremy Smith to Bridgeport Sound Tigers (AHL) Unknown [19]
August 9, 2018 (2018-08-09) Keegan Kanzig to Idaho Steelheads (ECHL) 1-year [20]
September 11, 2018 (2018-09-11) Tyler Ganly to Kalamazoo Wings (ECHL) 1-year [21]
September 27, 2018 (2018-09-27) Michal Cajkovsky from Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg (KHL) 1-year [22]
October 10, 2018 (2018-10-10) Brenden Kichton to SaiPa (Liiga) Unknown [23]

Waivers[edit]

Date Player Team Ref
October 2, 2018 (2018-10-02) Curtis McElhinney from Toronto Maple Leafs [24]

Signings[edit]

Date Player Contract term Ref
June 26, 2018 (2018-06-26) Phillip Di Giuseppe 1-year [26]
June 29, 2018 (2018-06-29) Valentin Zykov 2-year [27]
June 30, 2018 (2018-06-30) Andrei Svechnikov 3-year [28]
July 5, 2018 (2018-07-05) Trevor van Riemsdyk 2-year [29]
July 12, 2018 (2018-07-12) Greg McKegg 1-year [30]
July 12, 2018 (2018-07-12) Lucas Wallmark 2-year [31]

Draft picks[edit]

Below are the Carolina Hurricanes' selections at the 2018 NHL Entry Draft, which was held on June 22 and 23, 2018, at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas.

Round # Player Pos Nationality College/Junior/Club Team (League)
1 2 Andrei Svechnikov RW  Russia Barrie Colts (OHL)
2 42 Jack Drury C  United States Waterloo Black Hawks (USHL)
4 961 Luke Henman C  Canada Blainville-Boisbriand Armada (QMJHL)
4 104 Lenni Killinen RW  Finland Blues U20 (Nuorten SM-liiga)
6 166 Jesper Sellgren D  Sweden Modo Hockey (Allsvenskan)
7 197 Jake Kucharski G  United States Des Moines Buccaneers (USHL)

Notes:

  1. The Arizona Coyotes' fourth-round pick went to the Carolina Hurricanes as the result of a trade on May 3, 2018, that sent Marcus Kruger and a third-round pick in 2018 to Arizona in exchange for Jordan Martinook and this pick.[32]

References[edit]

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  30. ^ "Canes Agree to Terms with Greg McKegg". NHL.com. Retrieved July 14, 2018.
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