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,