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2019-20 Canes Miscellaneous News Thread

jeffbear said:
The Canes are in the freaking NHL playoffs and their AHL affiliate is whinging about not having a player the big club ended up putting in the lineup. That is patently ridiculous, of course.
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I don't think it's ridiculous...it's simply reality. A minor league team in a big market like Chicago can regularly attract a decent crowd without winning championships. The Wolves haven't raised the Calder Cup in more than a decade, yet they've averaged more than 7,000 butts in the seats every season since 2000. The Cherkers have never broken the 7,000 average, even in recent years when they've been very good. Throw in the value of TV rights in the country's third biggest market (the Wolves are on local TV at least 40 times a season) and you have a much stronger financial situation overall in Chicago.

The Canes are more interested in using their AHL affiliate for player development than in trying to help a franchise develop on the other side of their home state; that strikes me as smart business and I think this move will benefit them. I can't blame the Cherkers for not being in a better position to meet the Canes' needs. Both organizations are doing what is best for themselves. It's not personal, it's just business.
 
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Any AHL team whining and crying about too many guys being called up to the NHL is comical to say the least. The entire point of a minor league system is to allow players to reach the highest level, none of those guys aspire to toil for 5 years in the AHL without a sniff of an NHL call up. Anyone in Charlotte that is an NHL hockey fan will still find a way to make it up to Raleigh for a handful of Canes games a year, even if the Canes minor league affiliate is no longer in the Queen City.
 
CanadaCanes said:
Any AHL team whining and crying about too many guys being called up to the NHL is comical to say the least. The entire point of a minor league system is to allow players to reach the highest level, none of those guys aspire to toil for 5 years in the AHL without a sniff of an NHL call up. Anyone in Charlotte that is an NHL hockey fan will still find a way to make it up to Raleigh for a handful of Canes games a year, even if the Canes minor league affiliate is no longer in the Queen City.
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And I still might hit a Checkers game if I’m down that way visiting friends. Although less time at the Biscuit means more time at NoDa, Catawba, Birdsong, etc.
 
GEEMAN said:
is he any good
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The fact that you had to ask that about a guy who was on the Cup winners only a year ago and who played against your team three or four times this season kind of answers your question for you. He's a classic depth stay at home D who isn't a complete stiff moving the puck and plays the body with a bit of snarl. He's competent, but that's all. Fans tend to over-rate guys like Edmundson because they play physical hockey, and that happened here for sure As the advanced stats tell us ... people certainly didn't fall in love with the guy because he's good ... because he isn't. He's a role player.
 
cmaleski2 said:
The Canes traded Joel Edmundson's rights to Montreal for a 5th round pick.
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This is good business BTW. I didn't see any room in the budget for Eddie, especially after Fleury gets a new deal. And the left side was stupidly crowded to begin with. Walking away from paying that guy more than $3 million is a prudent move.
 
Edmundson wasn't terrible... he did end up contributing more to the Canes than Faulk did to the Blues this season, but at the end of the day he was as replaceable as Calvin de Haan was at this time a year ago.
 
Interesting that the Canes could secure anything for an average UFA like Eddy. The Habs must think they will be competing against a few teams to sign him and want to get a leg up early but draft picks of any kind for pending UFA’s usually are reserved for higher profile types than Edmunson.
 
CanadaCanes said:
Interesting that the Canes could secure anything for an average UFA like Eddy. The Habs must think they will be competing against a few teams to sign him and want to get a leg up early but draft picks of any kind for pending UFA’s usually are reserved for higher profile types than Edmunson.
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Yeah ... I'm honestly shocked that Carolina got anything for his rights. There are just so many LD of his calibre banging around the league that I'm having trouble seeing what Montreal is thinking here.
 
"It was inevitable" alert, but Boomer on @SiriusXMNHL just reported that Maniscalco replacing Forslund as play-by-play broadcaster going forward is now official. #sadface
 
StormChaserBH said:
"It was inevitable" alert, but Boomer on @SiriusXMNHL just reported that Maniscalco replacing Forslund as play-by-play broadcaster going forward is now official. #sadface
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Ugh. I like the big man, but not so much that I want to listen to him for a full season. I was hoping they'd hire it out and let Mike go back to inside promotions.
 
Mike, if you're reading this, time to put on the big-boy pants and grow into the P-by-P voice-of-the-team role you now play.

No longer the pre-game/post-game radio dude. No longer the sideline reporter with the color interview. Now you're the man.

However, still seems to be playing the same sideline-clown role he always played on the Canes podcast with Mike Smith (although admittedly kind of a clownish podcast). Just seems to be coasting along with his same bag of tricks instead of upping his game a bit to match the field promotion.
 
Elsker said:
Mike, if you're reading this, time to put on the big-boy pants and grow into the P-by-P voice-of-the-team role you now play.

No longer the pre-game/post-game radio dude. No longer the sideline reporter with the color interview. Now you're the man.

However, still seems to be playing the same sideline-clown role he always played on the Canes podcast with Mike Smith (although admittedly kind of a clownish podcast). Just seems to be coasting along with his same bag of tricks instead of upping his game a bit to match the field promotion.
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This is a bit harsh, IMO. I thought he got measurably better over the course of the re-start games. Tripp is Tripp and Mike's going to have to work out a balance between PxP and banter but I feel like anybody working with Tripp would have to do that. He's already better at it than Jason Shara, who pretty much ignored Tripp and carried on with his overly serious take on the job.

And look .... the Canes are playing him with what money? I 100% get going a bit cheap right now, with no gate revenue that you can count on. If you get to next off season and it's not where you want, then switch gears.
 
jeffbear said:
Fair enough. The Canes PR people have been killing it since Dundon took over.
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And Mike Sundheim stopped picking fights on Twitter. Honestly, that’s the main reason I followed him, but he’s been calm.

Dundon spent a boatload of money upgrading the PR, social and digital media teams and it is for sure paying off.
 
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