Even though there haven’t been any major announcements, the Hurricanes look like they have answers to the big questions about the defense lines for 2010-11. There’s been talk for several weeks about the return of the mysterious Anton Babchuk, and that looks more and more real every day. They’ve signed Jay Harrison to a bargain basement one year contract renewal and they’ve pretty much ruled out a return of Brian Pothier.
The Pothier talk isn’t surprising to me at all. Getting him from the Caps in the Joe Corvo trade was a salary dump, and they can do even better by letting him become a free agent on July 1. For the amount of money they save by being off the hook for Andrew Alberts plus the money they’ll save by letting Pothier walk, they can re-sign Babchuk, re-sign the RFAs (Brett Carson, Casey Borer and Alex Picard) and still come out looking pretty from a bottom line standpoint.
Babchuk has been a player that the Caniacs have loved to hate and hated to love for the past three plus seasons. More after the jump.
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