Hurricanes attempting to pull off a late season trade!

The Carolina Hurricanes are about to make a push in the 2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs but it seems like their management team has got plenty of distractions on their plate at this time. 

It now appears all but certain that 21 year old Harvard University defenseman Adam Fox will not be signing with the Carolina Hurricanes before he becomes an unrestricted free agent in 2020 and as a result it now appears that the Hurricanes are working on a contingency plan. A very interesting report publishing by National Hockey League insider Larry Brooks of the New York Post has revealed that the Hurricanes are now attempting to trade the rights to Fox. He will not come cheap however as according to Brooks the Hurricanes are looking for a major payoff before they trade away Dox's rights.

From Brooks:

Carolina is demanding a first-rounder in return for the rights to Adam Fox, Slap Shots has been told by several parties. But it is very, very early in the process — in which the Hurricanes’ leverage diminishes almost daily, with the Harvard defenseman having the option to hit the open market as a free agent in 2020.

The issue here is, as Brooks puts it, the Hurricanes have very limited time to get a favorable deal done on this front. Every other team in the league knows that Fox plans to walk to free agency in 2020 so if you can seduce him as a free agent why in the world would you give up a first round pick? That being said there will be a number of teams interested in a player of Fox's caliber 

What is interesting here is that should Fox sign with the Carolina Hurricanes he would be be eligible to play for the team effectively immediately given that he is at this time an NHL draft pick only. Fox was initially selected by the Flames and then eventually traded to the Hurricanes organization, but it does not appear that the possibility of playing on a playoff team is enough to entice the young man away from Harvard, at least not right now.