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About The Rumor Regarding The Carolina Hurricanes Moving To Quebec City

11/19/2016 at 8:52am EST

from Luke DeCock or the News & Observer,

It was still scoreless Friday night when Don Waddell called an impromptu first-intermission press conference to object to yet another relocation rumor. The Carolina Hurricanes president normally doesn't respond, but this one rankled.

These rumors came out of the Montreal media, just as they did last April before the Canadiens played the Hurricanes, and you could see Waddell's competitive juices sizzling as the old coach and general manager railed against what he saw as a contrived excuse to distract the Hurricanes players.

If that was the plan, it didn't work. The Hurricanes scored three goals in six minutes of the third period to post a 3-2 win and run their winning streak to three games, not that it made Waddell any less frustrated with this perceived injustice.

“The only reason we're talking about this today is because we're playing the Montreal Canadiens again and it started out of Montreal a few days ago,” Waddell said. “Because somebody has a radio show and because they put whatever they want on there … it grows like a wildfire.”

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Pat Hickey of the Montreal Gazette on the same topic,

It doesn’t quite have the same ring as Quebec Nordiques 2.0 but, as the Canadiens met the Carolina Hurricanes Friday, there was renewed talk that the troubled ’Canes are on their way out of town and Quebec City is being mentioned as the most probable destination.

Peter Karmanos Jr., the team’s 73-year-old owner has grown tired of losing money and has had a For Sale sign on the team for the past two years. He has hoped to find local partners who would allow him to gradually relinquish control of the team, a plan Charles Wang employed with the New York Islanders.

There has been some interest, but nobody willing to agree to Karmanos’ assertion that the team is worth US$400 million.

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