Since his hasty selection, in the third total row by the Montreal Canadian during the 2018 draft, all hope that the attacker Jesperi Kotkaniemi Assum in the NHL like a Top-6 center, capable of evolving on one of the first two trios.
A rare commodity that all training in the league is currently tearing out.
This is moreover exactly what the Hurricanes management of the Carolina hoped when it was submitted to it a hostile offer to an exorbitant salary of 6.1 million dollars before then signing it for 8 years to 4.82 million per year even if the young attacker had not yet proven anything in the NHL.
We saw him develop as a second trio center in the first half of his contract, making his salary a boon during the second half.
But that is not at all what happened and the bet does not bring in Caroline.
Not only did he have all the chances of the world to settle as the number two center of the team, and this in recent seasons, but the Hurricanes head coach, Rod Brind’Amourlost patience and seems to have officially launched the towel.
According to what the journalist reports Chip Alexanderwhich covers the team’s activities on a daily basis, despite the crying need of a second trio center in organization, it is not Kotkaniemi who will inherit the position to start the season.
Brind’amour does not have so much confidence in the skills of his center player to seize the opportunity that the journalist claims that he will rather try to transform a winger, be Seth Jarvis or Logan Stankovenin the center of the second trio.
While Kotkaniemi arrives halfway through his long contract, several rumors have been circulating for a good time for the effect that the team’s management would be open to compromising it, a sign that we agreed to move on and that it was an error.
- 25 years old, Jesperi Kotkaniemi is a left -handed center of 6’3 “/203lbs selected in the 1st round (3rd total) during the 2018 draft. Last season, he compiled a 12 goals and 21 assists for a total of 33 points in 78 games.