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Around the NHL: Brock Faber and Martin Nečas sign new deals
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Ryley Delaney
Jul 30, 2024, 10:00 EDTUpdated: Jul 30, 2024, 01:25 EDT
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Some notable players re-signed with their respective teams on Monday.
The Carolina Hurricanes re-signed an important player for their window of contention, while the Minnesota Wild re-signed their 2024 Calder Memorial Trophy finalist. Moreover, Team Canada made two hires on Monday.
Let’s take a look at that in the latest Around the NHL!

Carolina re-signed Martin Nečas

Restricted free-agent Martin Nečas re-signed with the Carolina Hurricanes on a two-year deal worth $6.5 million annually.
Last season with the Hurricanes, the 25-year-old from Nové Město na Moravě, Czechia, scored 24 goals and 53 points in 77 games. This was down from his career-high in 2022-23, when he scored 28 goals and 71 points.
It seemed as if Nečas could have received an offer sheet, as he’s a right-shot centre who can score upwards of 20 goals and 50+ points a season. On top of that, the Hurricanes are fairly deep on forward, and Nečas is better than the role he’s been given.
Still, the two parties were able to come to an agreement on a bridge deal. At the end of the 2025-26 season, Nečas will be an unrestricted free agent.

Minnesota re-signs Brock Faber

Another big re-signing happened on Monday, as the Minnesota Wild signed right-shot defenceman Brock Faber to an eight-year extension worth $8.5 million annually, or $68 million in total.
The Wild are betting big that their star defenceman pans out and for good reason. Last season, the 21-year-old defenceman scored eight goals and 47 points in 82 games, finishing second in Calder Memorial Trophy voting behind Connor Bedard.
Faber was originally selected by the Los Angeles Kings in the second-round of the 2020 draft, but was packaged with a first-round pick in 2022 (Liam Ohgren) for Kevin Fiala during the 2022 draft.
Fiala isn’t bad by any means, as he scored 29 goals and 73 points with the Kings in 2023-24, finishing second in both categories. However, Faber is one of the best young defencemen in the league and could’ve taken over Drew Doughty’s role when he eventually retires.

Hockey Canada hires development personnel 

In international news, Team Canada hired Al Murray as their head U20 scout, while hiring Scott Walker as a player development coach on Monday.
Al Murray was born on Mar. 7, 1957, and has been in the National Hockey League since 1988-89. His first gig was with the Los Angeles Kings, serving as the Scouting Coordinator from the 1988-89 season until the 1993-94 season, where he was promoted to Director of Amateur Scouting until the end of the 2006-07 season.
He spent three seasons as the head scout for Canada’s U18 and U20 teams from the 2007-08 season until the 2009-10 season, before becoming the Director of Amateur Scouting for the Tampa Bay Lightning. He held that role from the 2010-11 season until the 2022-23 season, before becoming a senior advisor for the 2023-24 season. Moreover, Murray was named the Lightning’s assistant general manager from the 2019-20 season until the 2022-23 season.
Walker had a 15-year National Hockey League career after the Vancouver Canucks selected him in the fifth-round of the 1993 draft. In total, he scored 151 goals and 397 points in 829 games before calling it a career after the 2009-10 season.
Since then, he’s worked in various roles. He was the head coach of Guelph Storm of the Ontario Hockey League from 2010-15, before becoming a player development consultant for the Canucks in 2015. From there, he coached Team Canada during the 2018 Olympics, before returning to the Canucks as the director of player development.
Walker joined the Arizona Coyotes in various roles, before returning to the Canucks again in an assistant coach capacity. In the summer of 2022, he joined the Storm once again, eventually becoming the team president.
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