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2024-25 Canes Miscellaneous Thread

The Canes have hired Amy Daniel’s as the Executive Director of the Carolina Hurricanes Foundation. She comes to the Canes from the Kay Yow Cancer Fund, where she was VP of Community Partnerships. Prior to that, she was Director of the UNC Health Foundation.

Running the Foundation has always seemed like a “slash” job, where it wasn’t their only responsibility. IIRC, Doug Warf ran marketing while he was also running the Foundation. Getting someone in there full time, with her experience is huge.

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Daniels Hired As Foundation Executive Director | Carolina Hurricanes

Daniels previously worked with Kay Yow Cancer Fund, UNC Health Foundation
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ksbeecane said:
I take it it will be the typical "All quiet on the Edwards Mill front" with regards to Freddie's status????
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I think they’re practicing today, maybe we’ll hear something after practice. He is not on the ice.
 
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andyt said:
Sportico is out with their list of estimated NHL franchise values. The Canes are 25th at $1.29 billion. Down 1 spit but a 32% increase from last year. Dundon paid $420 million for 52% in 2018, an indicated franchise value of just over $800 million.

The Leafs top the list at $3.66 billion, followed by the Rangers, Habs, Bruins and Kings (?) in the top 5. The Blackhawks dropped 2 spots to 6th. The Jackets are at the bottom, valued at $1.06 billion. Utah jumped the most, up 4 spots with a 78% increase (I wonder why?). All of the teams increased in value from last year, the Jets had the smallest increase at 19%. The Bruins and Oilers also jumped at least 50%

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Dundon has pretty much maxed out what he can do to increase the franchise value purely on the back of the hockey operation. From here, the value will only go up with ancillary revenues like what he hopes to generate from redeveloping the area around the arena.
 
andyt said:
The Canes have hired Amy Daniel’s as the Executive Director of the Carolina Hurricanes Foundation. She comes to the Canes from the Kay Yow Cancer Fund, where she was VP of Community Partnerships. Prior to that, she was Director of the UNC Health Foundation.

Running the Foundation has always seemed like a “slash” job, where it wasn’t their only responsibility. IIRC, Doug Warf ran marketing while he was also running the Foundation. Getting someone in there full time, with her experience is huge.

www.nhl.com

Daniels Hired As Foundation Executive Director | Carolina Hurricanes

Daniels previously worked with Kay Yow Cancer Fund, UNC Health Foundation
www.nhl.com www.nhl.com
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I know Amy a little from her time at UNC Health Foundation, and she's a well connected old hand in the philanthropy world. It's good that they're bringing in a pro instead of counting on somebody to handle foundation administration as a moonlighting gig. CHF has progressed to where it is kind of on the momentum of need and circumstance, but it's a big enough foundation to require professional administration. This move does that.
 
FWIW, Boston got beat 2-0 on Tuesday by a Philly team that had shown next to no interest in playing defensive hockey this season. Carolina will host a Bs team that has managed two regulation wins all season, having dropped 5 of their last 7. That's gonna be an angry, frustrated bunch that shows up in Raleighwood for Halloween.
 
Andersen update…RBA hasn’t gotten an update but it’s a lower body injury and he’s under the impression that it shouldn’t be too serious.
 
I mean ... baseline assumption, he tweaked his groin. Again. If not then he's also had minor knee and back issues as well. Most of which have been solved with a couple of weeks in the PT room.
 

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Forgive me if this was mentioned at the start of the season but I heard Frank the Tank Seravalli in the attached clip talking about the slick move Tulsky made in regards to that Bryce Montgomery contract structure that sets aside $1 million in performance bonus money/cap in the event that Nikishin is brought over next Spring...apparently that Montgomery cap gymnastics and placing him on the Canes active roster was done to allow that extra sweetener for Nikishin for this year at some point.
 
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Forgive me if this was mentioned at the start of the season but I heard Frank the Tank Seravalli in the attached clip talking about the slick move Tulsky made in regards to that Bryce Montgomery contract structure that sets aside $1 million in performance bonus money/cap in the event that Nikishin is brought over next Spring...apparently that Montgomery cap gymnastics and placing him on the Canes active roster was done to allow that extra sweetener for Nikishin for this year at some point.
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The downside of bringing him in this year is that he’ll be a RFA after next season. He just turned 23 so his ELC is limited to a 2 year contract. Burn a year this year, and he has to be re-signed after the 2025-26 season.
 
That's about the only sweetener Carolina can dangle for Nikishin. Come in ASAP, and we'll start your ELC structure early and get you to a real pro-level compensation package a year quicker than if we just played it by the book. They did the same thing with their recent college prospects. For a guy of Boom's caliber that's a feature, not a bug. Yeah, they give up one a year of cheap labor, but for a guy that good ... that's the cost of doing business.
 
This puts Chicago in a bad position as they have 2 ECHLers in net which I don't like with all the talent we have down there as well.

Love Freddie but my lord the man is as fragile as a souffle
 
On the upside, I think the Freddie era will be done after this season. No shade on what the guy has done when healthy, but ... yeah.
 
jeffbear said:
On the upside, I think the Freddie era will be done after this season. No shade on what the guy has done when healthy, but ... yeah.
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Which brings up the question of who's next? Lots of time to ponder this, but it's among the biggest challenges we must address.
 
Meh, not really worth thinking about right now. They'll have tons of cap space this summer as we've discussed for a while now, and they're starting from a good base. Shouldn't be all that difficult to figure something out.
 
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