from Scott Burnside of ESPN,

Status: SELLER

Available: The Hurricanes have a few spare parts that could be attractive to teams looking to fill in around the edges both up front and along the blue line. Jiri Tlusty is about to become an unrestricted free agent and makes only $2.95 million. Tlusty has good skills and might be a good bargain fit in New York or Pittsburgh. Jay McClement is a good two-way forward with good face-off skills.

On the blue line, Andrej Sekera would be attractive to a number of teams looking to add some skill on the back end, although given the Hurricanes' lack of depth along the blue line it's believed Francis will be looking to re-sign Sekera, who can become an unrestricted free agent this summer.

Needs: This team that has more needs than we have space to describe them. In short, there is some promising depth down the middle with Jordan Staal, Elias Lindholm and Victor Rask, and youngster Lucas Wallmark developing in Sweden. The elephant in the room is what to do with veterans Eric Staal -- the captain who recently vacated his normal position at center to play wing with brother Jordan -- and Ward.

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