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12. Carolina drafted WHL Spokane centre Hudson Elynuik 74th in 2016. After 86 points in 71 games during the regular season, he had seven points in the playoffs before the Chiefs were eliminated by Portland in a decisive first-round Game 7. He’s a big boy, bigger than his father, Pat, who went eighth overall in 1986. (He played 506 NHL games for Winnipeg, Washington, Tampa Bay and Ottawa.) There is word he will not sign with the Hurricanes and is going back into the draft. Deadline is June 1.
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That's the second junior player within the last few weeks rumoured to not be signing with the team that drafted him (Adam Mascherin was the other).
I guess this means that everyone who wants teams to avoid drafting college players will now want them to stop drafting junior players too.