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About Last Season: Final Grades for the 2022-23 Carolina Hurricanes

The new kid in town showed up a lot of the old standbys, and it was a year to forget for a few others. How did you grade the Canes’ conference final squad?

By Brian LeBlanc
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Florida Panthers v Carolina Hurricanes Photo by Kaydee Gawlik/NHLI via Getty Images

Remember what it was like when a new kid showed up in class and immediately started making straight A’s on every assignment? Like, I’ve been sitting here for years struggling on everything, and here comes Bobby Brainiac waltzing in like he owns the place and putting all of us to shame. Ugh. I bet he got the big stuffed animal that was the grand prize in the school fundraiser too.

Well, Brent Burns is probably going home with that gigantic stuffed walrus this year.

Yes, Jaccob Slavin (for the fourth year of the past five!) retains his spot at the top of the chart, but look at who was just six thousandths of a grade point behind him: his defensive partner. Not even Brett Pesce in his heyday was so close to overtaking Slavin at the top of the class.

The criteria is the same as in past years: players who played at least 10 games with the Hurricanes and were still somewhere in the system at the end of the season got a full article and a grading poll. (Or, at least they were supposed to; more on that in a second.) Let’s take a look at this year’s grades:

2022-23 Hurricanes: Final Grades

Player GPA Grade A B C D F Total votes
Player GPA Grade A B C D F Total votes
Jaccob Slavin 3.823 A 306 41 7 0 2 356
Brent Burns 3.817 A 329 61 0 1 2 393
Sebastian Aho 3.458 A- 206 165 20 0 2 393
Jordan Martinook 3.435 A- 116 104 10 1 1 232
Jalen Chatfield 3.415 A- 171 162 16 0 3 352
Andrei Svechnikov 3.411 A- 201 194 16 1 4 416
Coaches 3.357 A- 198 235 23 1 3 460
Stefan Noesen 3.294 A- 137 184 26 1 2 350
Martin Nečas 3.257 A- 132 167 29 4 3 335
Antti Raanta 3.219 A- 63 139 11 1 1 215
Brett Pesce 3.115 B+ 91 184 41 5 1 322
Jesper Fast 3.046 B+ 89 259 61 3 1 413
Front Office 3.016 B+ 109 304 74 6 5 498
Jesperi Kotkaniemi 2.802 B+ 41 307 112 8 2 470
Seth Jarvis 2.669 B 31 141 102 7 3 284
Derek Stepan 1.924 C+ 4 45 208 64 7 328
Paul Stastny 1.550 C 2 22 126 142 10 302
Calvin de Haan 1.481 C- 4 4 97 86 17 208
Jack Drury 1.459 C- 3 18 203 164 48 436
Teuvo Teräväinen 1.177 C- 2 13 92 222 56 385
Dylan Coghlan 0.679 D 4 1 25 121 129 280
Jesse Puljujärvi 0.552 D 5 0 33 253 323 614
OVERALL 2.609 B 2244 2750 1332 1091 625 8042

Some thoughts:

  • Take a bow, Jordan Martinook. Last year he brought up the rear with a D+ and a GPA just north of 1.0. This year? An A- and behind only Slavin, Burns and Sebastian Aho. That’s not only good company, but that’s a hell of an improvement.
  • And taking the down elevator...ooooof, Teuvo Teravainen. From just missing an A- last year to avoiding a D by a fraction of a point this year. Needless to say, not great timing going into a contract year.
  • I don’t know if we got overrun by Oilers fans or what on Jesse Puljujarvi Day, but he had 614 votes, by far the most of any player. The 323 Fs that he, um, earned were the second-most for any single grade for any player, only trailing the 329 As doled out to Burns.
  • The closest player to a true bell curve? Derek Stepan, and his 1.924 GPA reflects that.
  • Every player had at least one vote for each grade, with three exception: Burns had no Cs, Aho had no Ds, and to the surprise of absolutely no one, Puljujarvi had no Bs. (And yes, there were a few trolls, as there are every year. If you gave Burns an F, feel shame.)
  • Below are the GPA bounds for each grade:

Now, for the parenthetical from above. You might notice that a few players are missing from that chart. We had a technical glitch where some polls were created but never actually embedded in the articles. This affected Shayne Gostisbehere, Frederik Andersen, Jordan Staal, Brady Skjei and Pyotr Kochetkov. I have embedded their polls below, and I’ll update the chart in a week or so after you have a chance to vote on their grades. Sorry about that!

As always, thanks for participating this year!

Poll

How would you grade Shayne Gostisbehere’s 2022-23 season?

This poll is closed

  • 2%
    A - outstanding performance
    (17 votes)
  • 38%
    B - above average performance
    (225 votes)
  • 51%
    C - average performance
    (302 votes)
  • 6%
    D - below average performance
    (35 votes)
  • 0%
    F - significantly below average performance
    (4 votes)
583 votes total Vote Now

Poll

How would you grade Frederik Andersen’s 2022-23 season?

This poll is closed

  • 11%
    A - Outstanding Performance
    (25 votes)
  • 65%
    B - Above Average Performance
    (146 votes)
  • 20%
    C - Average Performance
    (46 votes)
  • 1%
    D - Below Average Performance
    (3 votes)
  • 0%
    F - Significantly Below Average Performance
    (2 votes)
222 votes total Vote Now

Poll

How would you grade Jordan Staal’s 2022-23 season?

This poll is closed

  • 20%
    A - outstanding performance
    (43 votes)
  • 59%
    B - above average performance
    (127 votes)
  • 17%
    C - average performance
    (38 votes)
  • 1%
    D - below average performance
    (4 votes)
  • 0%
    F - significantly below average performance
    (2 votes)
214 votes total Vote Now

Poll

How would you grade Brady Skjei’s 2022-23 season?

This poll is closed

  • 31%
    A - Outstanding Performance
    (68 votes)
  • 62%
    B - Above Average Performance
    (133 votes)
  • 5%
    C - Average Performance
    (11 votes)
  • 0%
    D - Below Average Performance
    (0 votes)
  • 0%
    F - Significantly Below Average Performance
    (2 votes)
214 votes total Vote Now

Poll

How would you grade Pyotr Kochetkov’s 2022-23 season?

This poll is closed

  • 5%
    A - Outstanding Performance
    (13 votes)
  • 58%
    B - Above Average Performance
    (130 votes)
  • 32%
    C - Average Performance
    (73 votes)
  • 1%
    D - Below Average Performance
    (3 votes)
  • 1%
    F - Significantly Below Average Performance
    (3 votes)
222 votes total Vote Now

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