The Carolina Hurricanes and Calgary Flames each are motivated to shake up their respective rosters this summer and, on Saturday, shake things up they did.

After mi sing the playoffs for the ninth straight season, the Hurricanes reshuffled their front office. New owner Tom Dundon cleaned house, bringing innew coach Rob Brind'Amour and promoting Don Waddell to general manager.

The Flames picked up some of the scraps left by Dundon's demolition project. After firing coach Glen Gulutzan, Calgary hired former Hurricanes bench bo s Bill Peters, who resigned from his post in Carolina.

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Those moves came after Calgary mi sed the playoffs for the seventh time in the past nine years. Though those two postseason trips came more recently in 2015 and 2017 the result this year was clearly unacceptable in the eyes of Flames bra s.

After playing that game of front-office musical chairs, the two teams that are now pretty familiar with one another took things a step further, Hyun-Jin Ryu Jersey on Saturday.

The swap broke the silence on an eerily quiet draft weekend: players selected fifth overall (Noah Hanifin, 2015 A. J. Pollock Jersey , and Elias Lindholm, 2013), a player selected eighth overall (Dougie Hamilton, 2011), and a top prospect (Adam Fox) all changed teams.

Hurricanes receive:

Defensemen Dougie Hamilton and Adam Fox, and forward Michael Ferland

Flames receive:

Defenseman Noah Hanifin and forward Elias Lindholm

Hurricanes: A+

It's not often you get a chance to acquire a defenseman the caliber of Hamilton or a prospect the caliber ofFox, but the Hurricanes got both in one fell swoop.

That's not to say they traded back 10 cents on the dollar, but it certainly wasn't 100 pennies. Carolina got the best player and best prospect in the deal, and with the Hurricanes and restricted free agent Lindholm reportedly , they didn't just kill two birds with one stone,they also managed to crack the stone open to mine some hard-to-find talent.

Hamilton is one of the most criminally underrated players in the NHL. That he's now joining his third team ahead of his age-25 season is representative of two things: Hamilton and the Bruins not being able to come to terms on a contract coming off his rookie deal, and the Flames gro sly misanalyzing what they had in Hamilton.

Since joining the Flames, Hamilton is 13th among defensemen in CF%, 25th in xGF%, and 9th in real xGF%. Hes been absolutely great. (Hes also 17th in points)

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By all accounts, Fox is also on his way to becoming a top-four defenseman. The 20-year-old New York native will return to Harvard for his junior season, and in the current college-to-NHL landscape, it's no guarantee he'll end up playing in Carolina.

If he does though, and if he's close to the player many project him to be, it's po Andre Ethier Jersey sible the Hurricanes just acquired two top-pairing defensemen. Even in trading one themselves, Hamilton makes the deal 150 percent worth it.

Breaking down the trade piece by piece, a Hamilton one-for-one with Hanifin and a Fox one-for-one for Lindholm both look pretty great for Carolina. Throw in Ferland, who could be a serviceable middle-six forward, and Carolina comes out of this exchange looking very good.

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Flames: C-

There are a few things that should be very concerning about this Kirk Gibson Jersey trade from a Calgary perspective.

First, losing a player like Hamilton is never a good thing. He, along with Mark Giordano, made up one of the best defense pairings in hockey. Does Calgary now reunite Giordano with T.J. Brodie, who just had a very un-T.J. Brodie-like year with Travis Hamonic (a player the Flames may also look to trade)?

It also makes Calgary heavy on left-shot defensemen (Giordano, Brodie and Hanifin are all left-handed), and while Giordano played on his off side with Brodie, he really excelled playing on his strong side with Hamilton.

Acquiring Lindholm gives Calgary the center depth for which NHL teams long. He could slot in on the Flames' second or third line, but given the profile of this trade, a spot in the top six makes a bit more sense, right behind Sean Monahan and usurping Mikael Backlund.

That, too, produces a real question about breaking up one of the best things Calgary had going Sandy Koufax Jersey for it last season. Backlund played between Matthew Tkachuk and Michael Frolik, the Flames' "3M" line. They sported some of the best underlying numbers in all of hockey, dominating po se sion and suppre sing scoring chances.

They didn't score at a commensurate rate Calgary shot 8 percent with that line on the ice at 5-on-5 but they did dominate the puck with a 57.2 Corsi-for percentage and outscored the opposition 35-21.

Those are both top-of-the-league numbers, and it stands reason that the 20-year-old Tkachuk's offensive production will grow. The Flames also just committed $32 million over the next six years in a Backlund extension. Peters Lindholm playing on the right wing next to Monahan and Jonhny Gaudreau. Maybe he'll be an upgrade over Ferland in that spot, but that wasn't one of Calgary's most pre sing areas to upgrade.

The Flames certainly needed to improve their roster after a disappointing 11th-place finish in the West due in part to a lack of talent and due in part to an injury to goaltender Mike Smith. The second pairing of Brodie and Hamonic was definitely in need of a fix, and the Flames' bottom six needed to be reenergized, especially when it's compared to the deeper teams in the conference.

It's just difficult to see how this specific move makes Calgary better today, or even two years from now.

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