Hall broke down the timeline of the blockbuster trade from his perspective Thursday. He claimed he's "definitely a better player than the amount I was playing" during his final weeks in Chicago.

Taylor Hall seems to be fitting in nicely with his new team, the Carolina Hurricanes. He has now played two games after being traded by the Chicago Blackhawks and just recorded his first point in his second game that came against the New York Rangers.

The deal sees Mikko Rantanen and Taylor Hall go to Carolina, and Martin Necas, Jack Drury and draft picks go to Colorado. Chicago gets its own 2025 third-round pick that it had traded to Carolina previously and retained half of Rantanen's $9.