For one, Brind’Amour is pairing his two best players by putting them on a line together. Aho has led the Hurricanes in scoring in six of the last seven seasons, and Rantanen was a superstar in Colorado, logging more minutes than any forward in the league since the start of the 2021-22 season.

After a blockbuster trade late Friday, Mikko Rantanen and Taylor Hall made their Carolina Hurricanes debuts in the team’s overtime road loss at the New York Islanders.

Taylor Hall made his Carolina Hurricanes debut on Saturday night. They did their best Chicago Blackhawks impression.

While Mikko Rantanen stole the headlines, the Carolina Hurricanes acquired Taylor Hall on Friday too, who waived his no-trade clause to chase a Stanley Cup.

The Carolina Hurricanes will be back in Raleigh, N.C., for a game Thursday night with a different look from when they last played on home ice.

The Hawks will receive a third-round draft pick, but the Hurricanes' acquisition of Mikko Rantanen from the Avalanche is the far bigger part of the trade Friday, per reports.

Fewer than 24 hours after learning they were changing teams, Mikko Rantanen and Taylor Hall looked every bit the part of Carolina Hurricanes. With crisp, red pant shells over their pads ...

The Carolina Hurricanes made a big splash on Friday night. As part of a three-team trade with the Chicago Blackhawks and Colorado Avalanche, they acquired both Mikko Rantanen and Taylor Hall.

Whether an NHL player has been traded five times or is experiencing it for the first time, everyone handles these situations differently. One of the biggest

“Taylor Hall said he had a good sense he was going to be traded to Carolina a couple days before the deal went down. He was playing pregame soccer with Chicago when Pat Maroon — who was supposed to be a scratch — joined the game. That gave the players a cue a deal might be afoot.”

Chicago Blackhawks general manager Kyle Davidson wanted to clear up at least one thing about the Taylor Hall trade: He was going to move Hall sooner or later.