–Elias Lindholm is a player to monitor. The Hurricanes, in a perfect world, would simply like to re-sign the RFA forward but talks haven’t progressed to this point although the player’s agent, Peter Wallen, and GM Don Waddell were slated to chat on Friday. We’ll see where that goes. In the meantime, while it’s way more likely that Jeff Skinner and Justin Faulk get traded out of Carolina, Lindholm is the player that’s garnered by far the most interest from other teams. And why not, he’s 23 years old, can play centre and right wing, and the best is yet to come from a young player who had 16 goals and 44 points this past season. Among the many teams that have reached out over the past few weeks is the Calgary Flames, who are searching for a top-six upgrade. I believe those conversations got large enough where the names of Noah Hanifin from the Hurricanes and Dougie Hamilton from the Flames were also involved at one point, but those talks fizzled, as far as I can tell. I guess you never know if both teams re-engage over the next few weeks or not. Again, at the end of the day, the priority for Carolina is to re-sign Lindholm and keep him if they can.