Carolina Hurricanes 2018 Season Preview: Draft Utopia

Carolina Hurricanes 2018 Season Preview

Teuvo Teravainen is one of the top line 1 players on the Carolina Hurricanes. With Cam Ward gone, Teravainen becomes one of the leaders on the Carolina Hurricanes.

Chris Ransom follow @DraftUtopia Posted on 9/27/2018.

Carolina Hurricanes Line 1 Forwards

Player	Position	Games Played	Height	Weight	Goals	Assists	Points
Sebastian Aho	Left Wing	79	5-foot-11-inches	172-pounds	29	36	65
Jordan Staal	Center	75	6-foot-4-inches	220-pounds	19	27	46
Teuvo Teravainen	Right Wing	82	5-foot-11-inches	178-pounds	23	41	64

Carolina Hurricanes Line 2 Forwards

Player	Position	Games Played	Height	Weight	Goals	Assists	Points
Micheal Ferland	Left Wing	77	6-foot-2-inches	208-pounds	21	20	41
Victor Rask	Center	71	6-foot-2-inches	200-pounds	14	17	31
Justin Williams	Right Wing	80	6-foot-1-inches	188-pounds	16	35	51

Carolina Hurricanes Line 3 Forwards

Player	Position	Games Played	Height	Weight	Goals	Assists	Points
Warren Foegele	Left Wing	2	6-foot-2-inches	190-pounds	2	1	3
Martin Necas	Center	24	6-foot-1-inches	168-pounds	9	8	17
Andrei Svechnikov	Right Wing	44	6-foot-2-inches	187-pounds	40	32	72

Carolina Hurricanes Line 4 Forwards

Player	Position	Games Played	Height	Weight	Goals	Assists	Points
Janne Kuokkanen	Left Wing	4	6-foot-1-inches	188-pounds	0	0	0
Phillip Di Giuseppe	Center	75	6-foot-0-inches	200-pounds	5	8	13
Brock McGinn	Right Wing	80	6-foot-0-inches	185-pounds	16	14	30

Carolina Hurricanes Forwards Review: Carolina has three very good lines of forwards. They won't have Victor Rask their line two center to begin the season though. Carolina has a very deep team at both center and right wing. One more left winger to compliment the current wingers on the fourth line could be added though.

Carolina was 23rd in goals scored last year and 22nd on the power play in 2017-2018. That was really disappointing for them. I think they can improve in that area and be a top fifteen team in goals scored as well as be a top 20 team on the power play.

Carolina Hurricanes Defensive Lines

Player	Line	Games Played	Height	Weight	Goals	Assists	Points
Justin Faulk	Line 1	76	6-foot-0-inches	215-pounds	8	23	31
Jaccob Slavin	Line 1	82	6-foot-3-inches	205-pounds	8	22	30
Dougie Hamilton	Line 2	82	6-foot-6-inches	210-pounds	17	27	44
Calvin De Haan	Line 2	33	6-foot-1-inches	198-pounds	1	11	12
Brett Pesce	Line 3	65	6-foot-3-inches	200-pounds	3	16	19
Haydn Fleury	Line 3	67	6-foot-3-inches	221-pounds	0	8	8

Carolina Hurricanes Defensemen Review: Carolina has a very underrated defense. Justin Faulk, Jaccob Slavin, Dougie Hamilton, Calvin De Haan, Brett Pesce, and Haydn Fleury make up three excellent lines of defense. Trading Noah Hanifin and some other players to save cap space was a small price to pay for the Hurricanes.

Carolina's defense will be better than last years defense in 2017-2018. That defense finished 22nd in goals allowed and 24th in penalty killing. Carolina has to improve those numbers in 2018-2019 after losing Cam Ward and downgrading at goalie if they want to contend for a playoff spot.

Draft Utopia Between The Pipes Goalie Tracker

Starting Goalie

Player	Team	Games Played	Record	Shutouts	Save Percentage	Goals Against Average
Scott Darling	Carolina Hurricanes	40	13-21-7	2 Shutouts	.888	3.18 GAA

Backup Goalie

Player	Team	Games Played	Record	Shutouts	Save Percentage	Goals Against Average
Petr Mrazek	Carolina Hurricanes	33	14-13-7	4 Shutouts	.902	3.03 GAA

Carolina Hurricanes Goaltender Review: Carolina downgraded at goalie by getting rid of Cam Ward. Scott Darling underperformed last year and Petr Mrazek is a downgrade over Cam Ward as the backup. I feel like Carolina should have kept Cam Ward.

Carolina Hurricanes Prospect Pool: Carolina has a 2016 first round picks in Jake Bean and Julien Gauthier who are both going to be added to Carolina's prospect pool. Jack Drury, Carolina's 2018 second round pick is an underrated player who could be a future prospect on the Carolina Hurricanes.

Carolina Hurricanes 2018-2019 Prediction

It is a shame that the Carolina Hurricanes are in the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conference. If this team were in the Atlantic Division, their playoff odds would be much greater.

Carolina will improve on last season. Its hard so say if it will be enough for Carolina to make a playoff spot. I feel like Carolina has enough talent to get to the opening round. They lack the talent to make it past the first round though. I won't be surprised if they miss the playoffs again though because their goalie situation is awful.