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Far From Normal In Carolina

04/09/2018 at 6:54pm EDT

from Luke DeCock of tne News & Observer,

Across the desk from the players in exit interviews, there was one man: Tom Dundon.

At the podium to wrap up the Carolina Hurricanes' season on Monday, there was one man: Tom Dundon.

No coach. No general manager. No team president. Just the owner.

What a wild, weird, wacky operation this is going to be...

If Bill Peters wants to leave? OK. If he decides to stay? Fine. Someone has to make trade calls and haggle over contracts. Might as well be Don Waddell, since he won't be making any decisions on his own. If someone significantly more insightful does come along, he'll get the job instead.

It has never been clearer how Dundon looks at things differently than traditional hockey people, and that's going to be jarring for a while, just as the lack of any clarification on Peters' future was Monday. It might be jarring forever.

So while hardboiled hockey men snicker in their Crown Royal from Moose Jaw to Montreal at the idea of an owner making hockey decisions or conducting exit meetings, certain deep in their hearts things have been set up a certain way across North America for decades for a reason, they might be right.

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Plus this from earlier today.

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