The Carolina Hurricanes plan on spending close to the salary cap, and they’ll have some blue line decisions

Kurt Dusterberg of NHL.com: The NHL salary cap will be going up to a projected $92.4 million, and Carolina Hurricanes GM Eric Tulsky said they plan on spending close to it.

“If there’s any chance to get better, we’re going to take it. We have the full buy-in to spend to the cap if there are ways to do it to get better.

“We have so much space and such a strong team. There’s no guarantee we can find ways to spend all that money, but we’re going to spend all summer trying.”

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