{"id":101914,"date":"2025-08-27T23:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/101914\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T23:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:21:07","slug":"hurricanes-sign-oliver-kylington-givani-smith-to-professional-tryouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/101914\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes Sign Oliver Kylington, Givani Smith To Professional Tryouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Carolina Hurricanes have signed<\/a> forward Givani Smith<\/a> and defenseman Oliver Kylington<\/a> to professional tryouts. Both players appeared in NHL games last season.<\/p>\n

Kylington\u2019s NHL action was split between the Colorado Avalanche and Anaheim Ducks. He only totaled 19 games, and five points, on the year after sustaining a string of injuries throughout the 2024-25 season. Kylington stepped away from the NHL from October 2022 through January 2024 to focus on his mental health. He returned for 33 games of the Calgary Flames\u2019 2023-24 season and won the 2024 Bill Masterton<\/a> Trophy.<\/p>\n

Kylington is now 28 and looking to reinstate his spot in the NHL. He bounced back and forth between the major and minor leagues from 2018 to 2021 \u2013 but broke out with 31 points in 73 games of the Flames\u2019 2021-22 season. At his best, he looked like a smooth-moving, two-way defenseman capable of holding both blue-lines. That talent could be enough to fill the in-between role vacated by Scott Morrow<\/a> when he was traded<\/a> to the Rangers in June. First, Kylington will need to prove he can still play at NHL pace.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Smith will look to flex his might as a bottom-of-the-lineup bruiser. He has fluctuated between the NHL and AHL for the last few seasons, and averaged at least one penalty minute per game everywhere he goes. Last season, Smith recorded no scoring and 18 PIMs in 13 NHL games, and three points and 21 PIMs in 16 AHL games. Those performances brought his career totals up to 22 points and 268 PIMs in 168 NHL games, and 55 points and 287 PIMs in 167 AHL games. He could be a candidate for an AHL contract, if he doesn\u2019t earn a deal with the Hurricanes out of camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Carolina Hurricanes have signed forward Givani Smith and defenseman Oliver Kylington to professional tryouts. Both players appeared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,748,58785,448,58786,14116,82,4584],"class_list":["post-101914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-givani-smith","tag-nhl","tag-oliver-kylington","tag-players","tag-sports","tag-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}