The Carolina Hurricanes welcomed another Canadian center to the club in Tuesday’s NHL Draft, selecting Portland Winterhawks center Seth Jarvis with the 13th overall selection in the first round.
Jarvis, a 5-10, 175-pound center, made a quick rise up draft boards with a second half of the season that was the talk of junior hockey. In the final 30 games of the year, Jarvis scored more than 70 points, and finished the truncated WHL season with 98 points in 58 games.
The Hurricanes were seen as a potential landing spot for Yaroslav Askarov, but the Russian goaltender went off the board two picks before Carolina’s selection when the Nashville Predators made Askarov the highest-drafted goaltender since Carey Price in 2005.