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Last week, I looked at the Goals Versus Threshold values for each of the Hurricanes ' players this past season to see who was contributing and preventing the most goals compared to a replacement level player.

McBain will be. At age 24, the former University of Wisconsin standout played 76 games for the Hurricanes in each of the past two seasons and has become a regular.

Justin Faulk’s short-range goal is a gold medal for the United States in the 2012 IIHF World Championship in Helsinki, Finland.

No less than a league's worth of teams are courting the 27-year-old star winger, from Detroit to Dallas to the hometown Devils, who will become an unrestricted free agent on July 1 if not re-signed by New Jersey before then.

The Carolina Hurricanes missed the playoffs for the fifth time in six seasons since winning the Stanley Cup in 2006, but showed some promise in their performance under new head coach Kirk Muller .

It's the beginning of May , and it's been less than a month since the regular season has ended for the Carolina Hurricanes.