The Hurricanes’ opening-day roster includes highly touted rookies, and plenty of vets
Seth Jarvis has made the Carolina Hurricanes’ NHL roster to start the 2021-22 season.
The question: how long will the 19-year-old forward be on it?
The Canes and all other NHL teams submitted their opening-day rosters to the league Monday. Carolina, which begins the season Thursday against the New York Islanders at PNC Arena, turned in a 23-man roster that included Jarvis and forward Jack Drury, two rookies who have made the most of their training camp opportunity.
The Canes announced Monday that defenseman Jake Gardiner had been placed on Long Term Injured Reserve. Center Vincent Trocheck is on Injured Reserve and forward Jamieson Rees on the injured non-roster list.
Asked Monday why Jarvis was sticking on the roster, Canes coach Rod Brind’Amour said, “He deserved it. Pretty much that simple.”
Jarvis was the Canes’ first-round pick in the 2020 NHL Draft and has shown speed, agility and good awareness on the ice. He starred for the Canes during the recent Prospects Showcase hosted by the Tampa Bay Lightning, and carried that into Carolina’s camp and into preseason games, where he has been noticeable and effective.
“He certainly has shown he’s not out of place, in the preseason games,” Brind’Amour said in a media interview after Monday practice. “As I said, he deserves to be here. There’s a lot of question marks when you bring a young kid up who hasn’t played at this level.
“I think we’ll take it a day at a time. .... He’s very sharp with meetings and taking it all in. He’s been a real pleasant surprise, for sure.”
At his age and coming out of the Canadian Hockey League system, Jarvis must either remain with the Canes all season or be returned to his junior team, the Portland Winterhawks of the Western Hockey League. That’s a stipulation of the transfer agreement the NHL has with the CHL that allows CHL teams to retain their top players.
One caveat: Jarvis could play nine games with the Canes before a final decision is made. Should he play a 10th game, the first year of his entry-level agreement with Carolina would be started.
Forward Martin Necas, a first-round pick by Carolina in 2017, played seven games for the Canes at the start of the 2018-19 season. Necas, who played in the Czech Republic before coming to North America, was assigned to the Charlotte Checkers, then the Canes’ American Hockey League affiliate.
Jarvis is not eligible to be sent to the Chicago Wolves, now the Canes’ AHL team. Drury, a former college star from Harvard, could play for either the Canes or Wolves, having spent last season in the Swedish Hockey League.
The Canes on Monday assigned five players to the Wolves who cleared NHL waivers: forwards Josh Leivo, Stefan Noesen and C.J. Smith; and defensemen Eric Gelinas and Maxime Lajoie. The Canes recalled goaltender Eetu Makiniemi from Chicago.
This story was originally published October 11, 2021 at 5:32 PM.
