Brady Skjei - Brett Pesce
This is a new pairing, one the coaching staff has stuck with throughout training camp and one that is likely to remain intact come opening night. It s a balanced pair that s going to defend well and move the puck up-ice with relative ease.
After the Canes acquired Skjei from the New York Rangers at the trade deadline, he logged just seven games before the pause cut the cord on the 2019-20 season. Skjei then played eight games in the 2020 postseason and logged a pair of assists and a booming hit on an old teammate turned teammate once more.
That’s a great, and patient, retort from Seravalli. And it’s a nicely-muted one, too; it doesn’t make any demands or throw any insults, but rather just indicates that KO Sports’ past criticisms did not hold up. And it makes Kurt Overhardt (the Kurt referred to there; he’s the founder and CEO of KO Sports) and KO Sports look pretty silly for trying to rebuff Seravalli’s report. As per the KO Sports Twitter account, they never bothered to apologize to Seravalli for calling his very-true report “false,” but they did spend much of Friday talking about how excited they were for Ludwig, including with this tweet: