Carolina Hurricanes sign Calvin de Haan to professional tryout
The Carolina Hurricanes have brought back defenseman Calvin de Haan on a professional tryout, Wyatt Ruff reported Friday.
de Haan, 31, is a 6’1″, 195-pound left-handed defender who scored eight points (four goals, four assists) and averaged 18:57 in 69 games with the Chicago Blackhawks during the 2021–22 season.
The #Canes have signed defenseman Calvin de Haan to a professional tryout (PTO).
A veteran of 520 NHL games, the 31-year-old played 74 of them with Carolina during the 2018-19 season.
Before being traded to Chicago in 2019, de Haan played one season with the Hurricanes after signing a four-year deal with the club as a free agent. He scored one goal and 14 points while averaging 18:31 in 74 games during his first go-round in Carolina.
The New York Islanders originally selected de Haan in the first round (No. 12 overall) of the 2009 NHL Draft. He made his NHL debut with the club in 2011–12 and played top-four minutes on Long Island before leaving for Carolina as a UFA in 2018.
The Hurricanes boast a relatively crowded defensive group, although there might be room for de Haan to sneak in on the third pairing. Jaccob Slavin and Brady Skjei will likely play top-four minutes on the left side, but Jake Gardiner is a big question mark after missing the entire 2021–22 season due to injury.
In 520 career NHL regular-season games with the Islanders, Hurricanes, and Blackhawks, de Haan has scored 19 goals and 119 points. He’s added one goal and five points in 37 career post-season contests.
de Haan is the second left-handed defenseman to sign a professional tryout deal today. He joins Danny DeKeyser, whose PTO with the Vancouver Canucks was also announced Friday morning.
With de Haan and DeKeyser set to attend NHL camps, only seven defensemen who played more than 20 games last year remain on the market: Keith Yandle, P.K. Subban, Anton Stralman, Zdeno Chara, Andy Greene, Kris Russell, and Nathan Beaulieu.