The Carolina Hurricanes signed defenceman Tony DeAngelo to a one-year, $1.675 million deal Monday, the team announced Monday.
DeAngelo was released by the Philadelphia Flyers on July 15 after one season with the club.
This will be DeAngelo’s second stint with the Hurricanes, as he spent the 2021-22 season with the Hurricanes. He had 10 goals and 41 assists in 64 games with Carolina.
DeAngelo was traded from Carolina to Philadelphia last July and signed a two-year, $10 million contract days later. He scored 42 points with 31 assists in a career-high 70 contests last season to rank sixth on the Flyers, who finished 14th in the Eastern Conference and missed the playoffs for the third consecutive season.
DeAngelo was a healthy scratch for the final five games under coach John Tortorella, with Philadelphia going as far as playing one defenseman short rather than dressing him.
“Do I agree with it, what happened in the last five games? Absolutely not,” he told reporters after the season. “I think it’s ridiculous that I didn’t play in the last five. But he’s the coach of the team. It’s not my job to decide that.”
The Flyers made a point of explaining their decision to release DeAngelo via a story on their website but appeared to go one step further by throwing some shade the defenceman’s way in the process.
“DeAngelo produced points at a reasonable pace (11 goals, 42 points in 70 games) and brought some intensity and physical competitiveness. However, the Flyers struggled to keep the puck out of their own net when DeAngelo was on the ice,” read the Flyers’ statement, which is not untrue, but eyebrow-raising for a team to say about a departing player.
DeAngelo ranked second on the Flyers in assists and fourth with 174 shots. The seven-year veteran led Philadelphia with 19 power-play points.
Drafted 19th overall in the first round by Tampa Bay in 2014, he also played four seasons with the New York Rangers and one with Arizona. He has 199 career points with 154 assists.
–With files from Associated Press