{"id":532244,"date":"2026-03-31T04:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/532244\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:03:12","slug":"hall-finds-perfect-role-in-1st-full-season-with-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/532244\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall finds perfect role in 1st full season with Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hall was acquired by Carolina from the Chicago\u00a0Blackhawks as part of a three-way trade that sent forward Mikko Rantanen<\/a>\u00a0to the Dallas Stars on Jan. 24, 2025.<\/p>\n

The trade ended a frustrating season and-a-half tenure with Chicago for Hall.<\/p>\n

A knee injury limited him to 10 games in 2023-24, and he had 24 points (nine goals, 15 assists) in 46 games last season before he was traded.<\/p>\n

Hall helped the Hurricanes down the stretch last season with 18 points (nine goals, nine assists) in 31 games, and then had six points (two goals, four assists) in 15 playoff games.<\/p>\n

Carolina was eliminated in five games in the Eastern Conference Final by the Florida Panthers, who went on to defeat the Edmonton Oilers in the Stanley Cup Final for the second consecutive season.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all about him and what his attitude was coming in,\u201d Carolina coach Rod\u00a0Brind\u2019Amour said. \u201cI was happy with how he was willing to do whatever we needed him to do. For a guy with that pedigree, that\u2019s not always the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe doesn\u2019t look like a guy who\u2019s been in the League for as long as he has. He\u2019s playing with the young kids and maybe that helps too, keeping him going. I don\u2019t want to say he\u2019s been a surprise, you expect that out of him, but he\u2019s been a really welcomed addition.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hall was selected by Edmonton No. 1 in the 2010\u00a0NHL Draft. He spent six seasons with the Oilers before being traded to the New Jersey Devils for defenseman Adam Larsson<\/a> on June 29, 2016. Hall spent four seasons in New Jersey, winning the Hart Trophy as the NHL most valuable player in 2017-18 with 93 points (39 goals, 54 assists) in 76 games.<\/p>\n

He was traded to the Arizona Coyotes in\u00a0Dec. 2019, and signed with the Buffalo Sabres as an unrestricted free agent the following season. Things didn\u2019t work out Buffalo, and he was traded to the Boston Bruins after playing 37 games with the Sabres.<\/p>\n

Hall had success in Boston before heading to Chicago, and is finding similar prosperity in Carolina.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter I left Boston, I wanted to be in a situation just like that and I think I really found it here,\u201d Hall said. \u201cIt\u2019s a credit to the organization, to the coaches, to the guys that have been here for a while, it\u2019s an easy place to come in and play and be yourself. I\u2019ve had lot of fun with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hall\u2019s evolution from a first-line forward to a responsible defensive player that can provide secondary offense has not always been smooth. But\u00a0Brind\u2019Amour has been able to get the most out of the speedy wing in the back half of his career.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019m really impressed, he\u2019s got a different kind of role,\u201d\u00a0Brind\u2019Amour said. \u201cOn other teams, he was the man, and that\u2019s not kind of how we operate, and he doesn\u2019t have any issue with that. He wants to win and do whatever he can to help our group do that and you can see that the way that he\u2019s played with us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hall was acquired by Carolina from the Chicago\u00a0Blackhawks as part of a three-way trade that sent forward Mikko…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5107],"tags":[194,29,5176,5,195,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-532244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-hurricanes","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","10":"tag-carolinahurricanes","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-hurricanes","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116321806345669003","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}