Fleury ready to join Canes’ young blue line?

CHARLOTTE -- It would be easy for Haydn Fleury to be impatient, even envious.

The defenseman, a first-round draft pick by the Carolina Hurricanes in 2014, has yet to make his NHL debut. Instead, Noah Hanifin, Jaccob Slavin and Brett Pesce have quickly advanced and become regulars on the Canes blue line the past two seasons.

A month ago, Fleury saw Nelson Nogier, a former teammate with the Red Deer Rebels of the Western Hockey League, be called up by the Winnipeg Jetsand get in his first 10 NHL games. Nogier was the 101st pick in the 2014 NHL Draft, taken in the fourth round.

But Fleury, 20, stayed put with the Charlotte Checkers in the American Hockey League for his first full professional…