Going into the 2019 offseason, the Carolina Hurricanes were faced with a dilemma. Long-time right-handed defenseman Justin Faulk was needing a new contract and when the two sides met at the 2019 NHL Draft, they weren’t close. Carolina felt more comfortable going into the season without a contract extension but Faulk and agent Brian Bartlett wanted the security of a new contract. Waddell, at the press conference for this trade, mentioned that “the offer they agreed to with St. Louis was too good to pass up.”
The package the Carolina Hurricanes acquired for the longest-tenured Hurricanes player and leader in points for a defenseman in franchise history was enforcer defenseman Joel Edmundson, a 2021 seventh-round pick, which I’ll get into another time and the main piece, which was the 25th pick in the 2019 NHL draft, German-born winger Dominik Bokk.