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Williams told the Hurricanes after the season that he needed some time to decide his future. On June 18, at the 2019 NHL Awards in Las Vegas, where he was a finalist for the Mark Messier NHL Leadership Award, he said he wasn't in a rush to make that decision.
"I'm going to take my time and make sure I make the right one, right?" Williams said. "Because if I'm all in, I'm going to be all in. If I'm not quite all there, then I have to reassess the situation. I'm not going to be good if I'm 85 percent all in. I've got to be all in. That's the only thing that's fair to me, fair to the teammates, fair to everybody."
A three-time Stanley Cup champion (Carolina in 2006; Los Angeles Kings in 2012, 2014), Williams has 786 points (312 goals, 474 assists) in 1,244 regular-regular season games and 101 points (40 goals, 61 assists) 155 playoff games.
