Confirmed with Link: Don Waddell Signs Multi-Year Extension With Hurricanes

[Big Daddy Cane]

It's still pretty wild (no pun intended) that a team was actively pursuing a guy that was roundly considered to be an idiot not worthy of the job just a year ago.

That just goes to show you how overrated the position really is. There's a lot to being a good or bad GM that involves luck, not individual skill.

 

[HisIceness]

I was really thinking this morning that the Canes weren't in the news much these past few days so I wondered what Dundon would do next. It's almost like he's metering out these things and causing some drama to keep the Canes in the headlines.

Just wait until Stephen A Smith mentions our squad. Then we will have really made it

 

[My Special Purpose]

Ah thank God Dundon isn't going the Jerry Jones route.

This is exactly why you have to be careful about putting two capitalized nouns next to each other without separating them with an article or a comma.

 

[DaveG]

It's still pretty wild (no pun intended) that a team was actively pursuing a guy that was roundly considered to be an idiot not worthy of the job just a year ago.

That just goes to show you how overrated the position really is. There's a lot to being a good or bad GM that involves luck, not individual skill.

Or being able or allowed (coughAtlantacough) to have a good staff to work with... Giggity.

Long gone are the days of Sam Pollock.

 

[DougieSmash]

Yeeeeeeeeeaaaaahhhhhhhh

f*** off Devils, Wild, Maple Leafs and etc

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

So does Waddell suck again now that he still works for us?

 

[Svechhammer]

So does Waddell suck again now that he still works for us?

Who told him to stop sucking?

 

[Chrispy]

So does Waddell suck again now that he still works for us?

That's Waddell's secret: he always sucked.

He just found a franchise with a GM that sucked more.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

Who told him to stop sucking?

I couldn’t believe how much of the main board suddenly thought he was a great gm when it looked like he could potentially leave.

 

[DougieSmash]

Dundon says Eric Tulsky is on a five-year contract

 

[Lempo]

Dundon says Eric Tulsky is on a five-year contract

... he doesn't believe in.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Just because Dundon doesn't believe in contracts, that doesn't mean his employees don't.

 

[Lempo]

Just because Dundon doesn't believe in contracts, that doesn't mean his employees don't.

I'm sure the loan managers in the employees' banks do.

 

[FreshSeabass]

It seems like for Tom he doesn't agree/believe front office staff should be under contract. Your being paid a salary to work for this team like any other job. Contract or not anybody could be fired tomorrow. He is right contracts are one way and for the employee only. But if someone wants that because it makes them feel better he is willing to do it. I see and understand Tom's view on it. I also understand people wanting a contract if it gives them value as an employee. It really feels like Tom and Don did this so they would stop getting questions and have people talk about it. I got the vibe that Don really didn't need a or want a contract.

 

[WreckingCrew]

Normally, I'd say something about taking off the tin foil hat, but man... this franchise seems to sometimes look to intentionally rile up the hockey community for no other reason than the lolz.

All aboard the troller coaster!!!

 

[Svechhammer]

All aboard the troller coaster!!!

Troller Coaster.... of lolz

 

[My Special Purpose]

That's Waddell's secret: he always sucked.

He just found a franchise with a GM that sucked more.

He found a situation where it doesn't matter that the GM sucks.

 

[Chrispy]

He found a situation where it doesn't matter that the GM sucks.

I was actually referring to Minnesota, both in the trade and the interview. But also valid.

 

[Roboturner913]

Normally, I'd say something about taking off the tin foil hat, but man... this franchise seems to sometimes look to intentionally rile up the hockey community for no other reason than the lolz.

I mean, they do that just by existing. Everything else is just bonus

 

[Roboturner913]

Ohh, I don't usually bother with that, but I'm off!

I'm waiting for someone to go post a "top 5 franchises of the 00's" and jam us in there. Went to conference finals 3 times that decade, beginning, middle and end. It's really a period of sustained excellence, if you think about it.

 

[HisIceness]

... he doesn't believe in.

 

[geehaad]

It seems like for Tom he doesn't agree/believe front office staff should be under contract. Your being paid a salary to work for this team like any other job. Contract or not anybody could be fired tomorrow. He is right contracts are one way and for the employee only. But if someone wants that because it makes them feel better he is willing to do it. I see and understand Tom's view on it. I also understand people wanting a contract if it gives them value as an employee. It really feels like Tom and Don did this so they would stop getting questions and have people talk about it. I got the vibe that Don really didn't need a or want a contract.

I am 100% on board with you until the last 2 sentences. My guess is that DW came to see the contract as "tangible" job security and valued it enough to ask Dundon for one. Perhaps he had a conversation or two with friends who advised him to get himself under contract. I'm not allowing myself to easily believe that they were signed to contracts simply for the optics of it.

 

[vorbis]

I’ve been reluctant to buy in to the “stretch out drama to keep the Canes in the news” theory but with how unnecessary this whole episode seems in hindsight, I could begin to appreciate that line of thought. Tom said that if Don really wanted a contract, he would give him one. soooooo... I guess he wanted one? what a weird kabuki dance this has been.

 

[Highest Boss]

Dundon says Eric Tulsky is on a five-year contract

'On a five-year contract' as in year 4 of 5 or signed for 5 more years

 

[StreetHawk]

It seems like for Tom he doesn't agree/believe front office staff should be under contract. Your being paid a salary to work for this team like any other job. Contract or not anybody could be fired tomorrow. He is right contracts are one way and for the employee only. But if someone wants that because it makes them feel better he is willing to do it. I see and understand Tom's view on it. I also understand people wanting a contract if it gives them value as an employee. It really feels like Tom and Don did this so they would stop getting questions and have people talk about it. I got the vibe that Don really didn't need a or want a contract.

There are positions within your organization that should be under contract so that people don’t bolt for another role and leave you hanging. There are positions that you can get by with not having someone for 6-8 weeks but you’re stretching your existing staff too much if you got longer than that without a replacement.

If Waddell were to walk mid season it’s not like other nhl teams are going to let one of their executives leave mid season to join your team.