{"id":803469,"date":"2026-08-05T12:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T12:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/803469\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T12:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T12:04:08","slug":"inside-look-at-carolina-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/803469\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside look at Carolina Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carolina still has not re-signed restricted free agent defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/alexander-nikishin-8482100\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Nikishin<\/a>. The 24-year-old did not have arbitration rights and is ineligible to receive an offer sheet, so there has been no urgency to get the deal done, yet. Tulsky compared the situation to Jarvis\u2019 in 2024 (he re-signed on Aug. 31), saying, \u201cRFAs without (arbitration) rights are often the last thing to get settled,\u201d but also acknowledged the trade rumors that have swirled around Nikishin this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe certainly get a lot of calls on him. We always have,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are, as always, looking to find ways to make the team better and if there are trades that will help move us forward, then, of course, we will do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was the Hurricanes\u2019 approach throughout their long build toward winning the Cup last season, and their expectations haven\u2019t changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think for a long time now we&#8217;ve had a team that was good enough to win if things went our way,\u201d\u00a0Tulsky said. \u201cWe had injuries, we&#8217;d run into a hot goalie, whatever. There were reasons it didn&#8217;t go our way every year. This year, we finally had a year where we were healthy and where it was our team that was hot, and the result was great.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we still want to get to where we win even if things don&#8217;t go our way. That means we need to keep taking steps forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carolina still has not re-signed restricted free agent defenseman Alexander Nikishin. The 24-year-old did not have arbitration rights&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-803469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}