{"id":114519,"date":"2021-07-28T10:27:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T14:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=114519"},"modified":"2021-07-28T10:32:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T14:32:35","slug":"report-frederik-andersen-joins-carolina-hurricanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/07\/28\/report-frederik-andersen-joins-carolina-hurricanes\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Frederik Andersen Joins Carolina Hurricanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Carolina Hurricanes have reportedly signed unrestricted free agent goaltender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/anderfr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frederik Andersen<\/a> to a new contract. Terms of the deal are yet to be disclosed. The Athletic&#8217;s Pierre LeBrun first reported the deal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\"><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">All signs point to Freddy Andersen signing with the Carolina Hurricanes when the market opens. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSNHockey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TSNHockey<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TheAthletic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PierreVLeBrun\/status\/1420385527082229760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">July 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/a\/anderfr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frederik Andersen<\/a> Moves On to Carolina<\/h2>\n<p>Over his extensive eight-year NHL career Andersen has played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/ducks\/\" target=\"_self\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a>, However the majority for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/category\/leafs\/\" target=\"_self\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a>. In this time, he has put up a\u00a0 career save percentage of.915\u00a0 and 2.65 goals-against average in\u00a0 393 career games. He was redrafted in the third round, 87th overall of the 2012 NHL draft by Anaheim Ducks.<\/p>\n<p>Last season he achieved a .895 SV% and a 2.96 GAA, but only played\u00a0 24 games and started in 23 of them. Andersen was injured for a good chunk of the season and lost his starting spot.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means for the Future<\/h3>\n<p>The Leafs owe a debt of gratitude to Anderson for days gone. But in the last few seasons, the injury-prone Danish goaltender has been on a steady decline. The rise of\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/campbja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jack Campbell<\/a> as likely starter and the Leaf&#8217;s limited Cap space made the departure of Andersen a foregone conclusion. The Leafs have relied on Andersen&#8217;s work ethic between the pipes, particularly through the playoff games in the last four seasons. The 31-year-old experience will be valuable to his new team.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto will go in another direction to find a backup or future starter to challenge Campbell for the top spot in the crease. The now-former Leafs goalie reportedly didn&#8217;t get an offer from Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Carolina solves its goalie problem somewhat after losing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/n\/nedelal01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex Nedeljkovic<\/a> in a trade with the Detroit Red Wings. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bernijo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Bernier<\/a> was technically under contract, but he reportedly went to the New Jersey Devils. Either <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mrazepe01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Petr Mrazek<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/reimeja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Reimer<\/a> may return, but there will be a battle for the top spot in net.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"YfEkSRWyQwhFoYENvPgPIw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1233009747\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'YfEkSRWyQwhFoYENvPgPIw',sig:'EmCIqv8UTc5RMZsYdo4eoFBnn6T-LB6C8VDEyiM_DFA=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1233009747',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carolina Hurricanes have reportedly signed unrestricted free agent goaltender Frederik Andersen to a new contract. Terms of the deal are yet to be disclosed. The Athletic&#8217;s Pierre LeBrun first reported the deal. All signs point to Freddy Andersen signing with the Carolina Hurricanes when the market opens. @TSNHockey @TheAthletic &mdash; Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2344,"featured_media":114251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,10,4547,4548,18],"tags":[2923,322,662,955,619],"class_list":["post-114519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-hurricanes","category-hockey","category-nhl","category-leafs","tag-jack-campbell","tag-james-reimer","tag-nhl-free-agency","tag-nhl-news","tag-petr-mrazek"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}