The Carolina Hurricanes made a splash yesterday as they traded a once projected top six center in Victor Rask for scoring winger Nino Niederreiter. Rask’s high water mark was the 2015-16 season in which he tallied 48 points and 21 goals. At that point in his career he was projecting as a a solid two way, second line center in Carolina.
Things obviously didn’t go as planned as he spent most of his time on ice over the past two seasons centering in a bottom six role, and his production suffered as a result.