Hurricanes Embark on New, Expensive Era

Sebastian Aho skates on opening night (10/4/18) against the New York Islanders.For several years, the Carolina Hurricanes have been among the bottom-five NHL teams in payroll. That’s one of the benefits of being irrelevant, I guess. You don’t have to spend a lot of money to bad.

Someone should probably tell the Edmonton Oilers and the Detroit Red Wings...

When you go through a rebuild like the Hurricanes have, there eventually comes a day where negligibly cheap entry-level contracts expire and the players you have drafted are due for real contracts.

That day is getting very close for Carolina.

Tom Dundon and the Hurricanes’ front office will have a lot of key decisions to make over the next few…