Report: Hurricanes could consider dumping core player

Are the Carolina Hurricanes thinking of ditching one of their core players? 

Right now as it currently stands, the Hurricanes have approximately $3.4 million remaining in valuable salary cap space after having lured scrappy forward Michael Bunting from the Toronto Maple Leafs along with veteran Dmitri Orlov from the Boston Bruins. 

Could Teuvo Teravainen soon be on the move? According to NHL Insider Elliotte Friedman, it's a possibility.

"I think they've talked to some teams about Teravainen, if they need to make some cap room, I think Carolina has a few things going on out there," Friedman stated recently during a guest appearance on the NHL Network. 

Teravainen was acquired by the Hurricanes from the Chicago Blackhawks in June of 2016, not terribly long after he won the Stanley Cup as a member of the team the previous summer. He's now one of the longest tenured current members of the team, having racked up 128 goals and 362 total points in seven years with the team. 

Right now, he's in the midst of a five year, $27 million contract extension he signed in 2019, carrying an annual cap hit of $5.4 million. 

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