They have an investors meeting tomorrow to attempt to get more people to invest in a new team
As someone who has been a Hurricanes fan since they moved from Hartford to their temporary residence in Greensboro, I believe the continued acknowledgement of the franchise beginnings is vital. I’ve actually talked to several of the people in this broadcast, and I did so several times in Greensboro, the first year after Hartford lost the team. I’ve never seen a dynamic in an arena like I did for the first game in Greensboro – fans of three teams cheering for two on the ice. A bunch of new fans hoping to embrace a new franchise (check), fans of the old franchise that moved that were heartbroken and wanted to keep cheering for their beloved team (check), and the huge group of Penguins fans showing us how many of them would interlope into our arena over the years (yecch).
It is not lost on me that before Dundon bought the Hurricanes that Karmanos was still the owner, and the franchise was under the threat of moving away from Raleigh to somewhere else. It’s always important to welcome those Whalers fans and understand the loss of their team, and know that it would be great to play a pre-season game or even a regular season game there as acknowledgement of a fan base that still cheers for the Hurricanes from hundreds of miles away. We know ownership won’t do it because of revenue loss or some such crap, but as one of the folks in the video said, “For two and a half hours once a year, it feels like we got our damn team back”. The Whalers are not the Hurricanes, but the Hurricanes still are the Whalers would have been and always will be.
Saving to watch later, thanks for sharing
Sorry for Hartford, but things change. I look at all the tearing down of homes and rebuilds in my neighborhood to have any attachment to the recent past. Hell, they just took down a 170 year old white oak a couple of days ago because it was in the footprint of the replacement house.
Time to move on. The team has a better facility to play in and the Hurricane organization is better than the Whalers ever was.
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They have an investors meeting tomorrow to attempt to get more people to invest in a new team
As someone who has been a Hurricanes fan since they moved from Hartford to their temporary residence in Greensboro, I believe the continued acknowledgement of the franchise beginnings is vital. I’ve actually talked to several of the people in this broadcast, and I did so several times in Greensboro, the first year after Hartford lost the team. I’ve never seen a dynamic in an arena like I did for the first game in Greensboro – fans of three teams cheering for two on the ice. A bunch of new fans hoping to embrace a new franchise (check), fans of the old franchise that moved that were heartbroken and wanted to keep cheering for their beloved team (check), and the huge group of Penguins fans showing us how many of them would interlope into our arena over the years (yecch).
It is not lost on me that before Dundon bought the Hurricanes that Karmanos was still the owner, and the franchise was under the threat of moving away from Raleigh to somewhere else. It’s always important to welcome those Whalers fans and understand the loss of their team, and know that it would be great to play a pre-season game or even a regular season game there as acknowledgement of a fan base that still cheers for the Hurricanes from hundreds of miles away. We know ownership won’t do it because of revenue loss or some such crap, but as one of the folks in the video said, “For two and a half hours once a year, it feels like we got our damn team back”. The Whalers are not the Hurricanes, but the Hurricanes still are the Whalers would have been and always will be.
Saving to watch later, thanks for sharing
Sorry for Hartford, but things change. I look at all the tearing down of homes and rebuilds in my neighborhood to have any attachment to the recent past. Hell, they just took down a 170 year old white oak a couple of days ago because it was in the footprint of the replacement house.
Time to move on. The team has a better facility to play in and the Hurricane organization is better than the Whalers ever was.