3:49 PM: PuckPedia confirms it will be a one-year, $1.675MM contract for DeAngelo and the Hurricanes.
2:12 PM: The Carolina Hurricanes are closing in on a one-year deal for defenseman Tony DeAngelo in the $1.6MM range, per Frank Seravalli of Daily Faceoff. The signing concludes a weeks-long courtship of DeAngelo by the Canes, who previously had the right-shot defender on their roster for the 2021-22 campaign.
DeAngelo’s former team, the Philadelphia Flyers, bought out the 27-year-old earlier this month after a proposed trade to send him back to Carolina at 50% salary retention fell through. While he is coming off three straight 40-point campaigns, his defensive deficiencies and a laundry list of off-ice controversies are nothing to shy away from. He’s now the only player in NHL history to get bought out twice.
Despite leading the Flyers’ defense in points and finishing second in average time on ice, head coach John Tortorella scratched DeAngelo multiple times to finish off last season, fracturing the relationship between the player and his hometown team. The league blocked the reported trade sending DeAngelo back to Carolina at a cap cost of $2.5MM, half of his $5MM salary with the Flyers, citing cap circumvention as their reasoning.
DeAngelo now heads back to Raleigh, where the Hurricanes have demonstrated an ability to cover up the defender’s deficiencies that arise from his one-dimensional play. Recording ten goals and 51 points in 64 games, DeAngelo recorded a career-high +30 with Carolina during his only season there and spent most of his time alongside Jaccob Slavin on the team’s top pairing, whose elite shutdown play helped DeAngelo play to his strengths offensively without hurting the team in the goals against column.
The question is now where DeAngelo fits in on Carolina’s defense, which has seen a significant makeover with Brent Burns and Dmitry Orlov added to the fold in back-to-back offseasons after DeAngelo’s departure. Right-shot Brett Pesce remains with Carolina, but without a contract extension in place beyond next season, he’s a likely trade candidate as the offseason draws on.
A looming wild card is where Carolina stands in trade talks for San Jose Sharks defenseman Erik Karlsson, whose status on the block is no secret after a Norris Trophy-winning campaign. Multiple reports state the Hurricanes and Pittsburgh Penguins are the two frontrunners for his services, which would undoubtedly plug up a deep right side and make it hard for DeAngelo to earn much ice time in his second stint with Carolina. Could DeAngelo find himself on the move again in a matter of weeks as part of a trade package for Karlsson? Per Seravalli’s initial report, it’s unclear whether his short-term pact with the Hurricanes includes trade protection.
A $1.6MM cap hit leaves Carolina with roughly $900K in cap space as things stand, per CapFriendly, so DeAngelo is likely the last of their major free agent additions. The team has been quite busy on the open market this summer, adding Michael Bunting and Brendan Lemieux in addition to DeAngelo and Orlov.
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He will not finish the season..He will be bought out again watch and see..
Buyouts are not permitted during the season, only during specific offseason windows. The only path for DeAngelo to depart the Hurricanes organization contractually during the season would be via a waiver claim or an outright contract termination, which would likely have to be mutual unless DeAngelo does something that breaches his contract.
He’s a very very talented cancer.
They wouldn’t need to anyway, even if they could. Almost all of that salary can simply be buried in the AHL.
The bigger question is: why? Quite aside from DeAngelo’s other notable problems, both Burns and Orlov can run power plays at least as well as he can. Why in the dickens would you bring him in to be the 3rd PP man?
Sorry he will be terminated then he is a cancer and this time around it well not be good…he will certainly be sitting a few games…
Same thing everyone said when he first went to the Canes. They wanted to re-sign him, but didn’t want to pay what he wanted. Got the chance to play for his home town team and that didn’t work out. As a Canes fan, we welcome him back. He was pretty darn good for the Canes and everyone had great things to say about him. Sometimes certain players only work on 1 team.
“Nobody wants him”
Sounds like Erik Karlsson is coming to PGH.
Looks like one less iron in the fire….
As a Canes fan, I hope so.
Not a bad 3rd pair Dman who can run a PP. Doesn’t have any impact on karlsson. It will either be karlsson or pesce as the final right side Dman.
Who CAN run a PP…if Burns and Karlsson aren’t ahead of him on the depth chart. PP3 QB?
As much as I want the Pens to get Karlsson, if the Canes want to sabotage themselves to the Nth with a Burns/EK reunion AND adding DeAngelo to replace Pesce….more power to them.
He’s leaving WWE NXT for the NHL? LOL
That Tony D’Angelo is much much better
It mean that the Carolina-Philadelphia trade was a real trade (embarassing for NHL) and….
Karlsson is going to Pitsburgh
Congrats to Deangela on setting that NHL record by getting bought out twice, way to go!
I believe Ilya Byrzgalov was bought out more than once too.
“Boo, I don’t likes him, he shouldn’t be allowed to play!”.
He will always have a job because most NHL front office personnel and owners agree with his politics no matter how much his play on the ice declines.
The world is full of people of all political persuasions. He’s in the NHL because he creates offence from the back end like very few people on the planet can. If conservative politics were enough to get you in the league half the people on this site would have a spot. He’ll have a spot just as long as he help create more goals for than against.
Do you really think his off ice issues are because of his politics? I guarentee you the majority of the league leans his way politically yet do not have off ice issues.
Dumbest comment of the month. Congratulations. You can pick your plaque up behind the dumpster behind 7-11.
Danny Briere probably talked himself blue in the face trying to unload DeAngelo onto the Canes for a 2025 7th round pick and substantial salary retention. But Don Waddell figured no other NHL team wanted DeAngelo so he went the route he did. And Waddell won out, except for one minor detail: the Canes are stuck with DeAngelo on their roster next season.
If only Waddell had thought that through.
A really talented player that has some real issues. It’s a shame, I thought he was going to stick in Philly. He seems to be very thin-skinned and interprets remarks, whether from fellow players or coaches, as slights. I guess Carolina is taking another kick at the can. Well, maybe it lasts for this season.
If Torts wasn’t the HC then he probably would be, likely the same for Hayes. GMDB knew Torts wasn’t gonna jive with either.
It’s a good contract for a fairly decent offense-creating D-man. But if Pesce stays, I don’t get why Waddell would bring such a cancer/repeat offender into Carolina when their blue-line is already as stacked as it is (he’s not better than Burns or Pesce, and Chatfield is the better defender). Even if Pesce goes, it seems like an unnecessary risk-but hey, it worked out pretty well for the Canes last time, maybe they just know how to keep him in check. Will be interesting to see how this one plays out.
Funny People keep bringing up politics. He had issues in junior that had nothing to do with politics. Nothing that goes wrong is his fault. Reality Tortorella probably has very similar politics . History shows the guy is jerk like Evander Kane or Steve Downie .
TDA is a cancer, TDA is a jerk, TDA is thin-skinned, nobody wants him. Wah, wah, wah.
Carolina wanted him and he was not a problem when he played here two years ago. Fans and teammates liked him, and he stood up for his teammates on the ice when bad hits were made.
TDA is an average defender with a serious offensive upside. He was the 4th highest scoring defenseman in the NHL in 2019-20 with 53 points for the NYR, more than Makar, Fox, Ekblad, and Karlsson. He was the 17th highest scoring defenseman in the NHL in 2021-22 with 51 points for CAR, more than Jones, Werenski, Klingberg, and Pietrangelo. And he was the 27th highest scoring defenseman in the NHL in 2022-23 with 42 points for Philly, surpassing Rielly, Ekblad, Letang, and Orlov.
He’ll play on the 3rd line with Chatfield, who is a terrific defender and will make up for TDA’s defensive deficiencies. And CAR is paying him only $1.675 MM.
What’s not to like about this deal?
Well to start, they are paying a racist.
And before you jump to hes conservative not a racist. No, hes both.
Listen to his dads interview about tony being suspended in the minors for using slurs.
Its not politics, hes a racist.
What jobs should he be eligible to be hired for?