So was reading the Hanna Yates article on the Canes website and saw this and though it was noteworthy.
"about six years ago, when I first graduated from college, I was visiting a family friend with my dad who had a connection. He was a part of the board here at PNC Arena and he knew that I wanted to get into hockey.
So he said, "Why don't we just reach out to the Canes organization and see if someone would be willing to speak with you and give you some insight on steps to take just to get your foot into the hockey world?" And so of course I was like, "Yeah, if someone's willing to do that I would love it."
Don Waddell volunteered to do it.
He gave me a tour of the arena, then we sat in the stands on our own after practice. He just kind of talked to me about like, my goals and dreams in the broadcast industry and then gave me some insight on hey, you know, here's the type of people you could talk to to break in, here's what you can do to build a reel, different things that we look for when we're hiring and stuff.
Fast-forward six years and now here we are. It's all very surreal.
I wasn't trying to get any specific job at the time, there wasn't an opening, but I just wanted to pick as many brains as I could and see if someone was willing to talk to me. He was super friendly and helped me a lot."
