A Look at Prospects Whose Signing Rights Expire in 2023

Photo by Kevin Light/Getty ImagesI was out for the past week due to my honeymoon and missed the June 1 deadline to sign prospects. The Carolina Hurricanes did not sign Lenni Killinen by the deadline, so he has now become a UFA and is free to sign anywhere he chooses. Killinen had already signed a new deal with a club in Finland, so it wasn’t much of a surprise that the Hurricanes decided to let him go.

That got me thinking about which prospects the Hurricanes need to sign by June 1 or August 15 next season in order to keep them in the pipeline. After doing extensive research (looking at CapFriendly), there are prospects from the 2019 and 2021 draft classes whose signing rights will expire in…