Jeremy Welsh re-signs with the Hurricanes

The last remaining free agent under team control has been signed as the Hurricanes were finally able to come to terms with Union College star Jeremy Welsh on a two-year contract. The contract is a two-way deal in the first year, where Welsh will be paid $700,000 to play in the NHL and $105,000 in the AHL, it then becomes a one-way contract the next year where he will be paid $1,000,000 no matter where he plays. This is a pretty standard contract for a college free agents since players such as Matt Read and Stephane Da Costa received similar deals at the beginning of their NHL careers. Now that Welsh is finally under contract, we can start to speculate what kind of career he will have with the Hurricanes and as of right now, it's really tough to tell what the Canes will get from Welsh in these two years. Undrafted college free agents are somewhat of a crap shoot because if you look at a list of them over the years, the names are really all over the place. General manages always ...