CarolinaHurricanes.com<\/a> after the announcement. \u201cWhen they announce the teams (for these games), you usually don\u2019t see Carolina there, and you\u2019re always like, \u2018Bummer.\u2019 But (this is) worth the wait.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Hurricanes will face the Seattle Kraken in the two NHL Global Series games, on Nov. 12 and Nov. 14, a little more than a month into the 2026-27 season. The league also announced that the Senators and Blackhawks will play a pair of games in Dusseldorf, Germany, in December.<\/p>\n
Hurricanes introduce 3 minority owners<\/p>\n
The value of the Hurricanes franchise has skyrocketed since Tom Dundon took over majority ownership of the team in 2018. More than eight years and soon-to-be eight consecutive trips to the postseason later, Carolina has gone from being worth more than $400 million to now being valued at $2.66 billion.<\/p>\n
The team\u2019s value, fueled in part by its success on the ice, has certainly paid off for Dundon, who is now in line to purchase the NBA\u2019s Portland Trail Blazers for reportedly more than $4 billion.<\/p>\n
Not long after the Trail Blazers news, the Hurricanes announced that Dundon sold a 12.5% minority stake in the team to three investors, and they were introduced last Thursday: Brett Jefferson, Marc Grandisson and Bobby Farnham.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Tom has thought about for a long time whether he wanted to bring in minority ownership or if there was a good time to do it,\u201d Hurricanes CEO Brian Fork said at the introductory press conference. \u201cAnd I think he was always looking for the right people, and if he found the right group of folks to come into the team, then that would be the right time \u2026 and (he) just decided that the time was right.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jefferson, founder of Hildene Capital Management, won a national lacrosse championship at Syracuse in 1988 and is also a minority owner of the Oshawa FireWolves of the National Lacrosse League, but he said hockey was his first love.<\/p>\n
\u201cI called Tom on my 60th birthday,\u201d Jefferson said, \u201cand I said, \u2018I\u2019d like to buy myself a birthday present. \u2026 I\u2019d like to buy part of your team.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Grandisson is a retired Canadian executive who said buying a stake in the Hurricanes is \u201ca commitment that will last for my family for years and years.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe love the team, we love the game, and that\u2019s really what it\u2019s all about,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The most interesting addition is Farnham, who played collegiately at Brown and then piled up penalty minutes in nine professional seasons, including playing 67 NHL games with the Penguins, Devils and Canadiens.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf there\u2019s a point that (I) can add incremental value on the hockey side, and I don\u2019t know what that looks like yet, I would love to do so,\u201d said Farnham.<\/p>\n
Byron\u2019s fandom goes back<\/p>\n
Two-time Daytona 500 winner William Byron hasn\u2019t jumped on the Hurricanes\u2019 bandwagon.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was my dad and I coming to games when I was probably 6 years old,\u201d the 28-year-old Hendrick Motorsports driver said at last Thursday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n
That included attending Game 1 of the Stanley Cup final in 2006.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe sat up, like, the very top row,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was fun. That\u2019s my earliest memory, and we have a couple pictures from that time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Byron has since gone from iRacing phenom to NASCAR star, totaling 16 Cup Series wins and a 2017 Xfinity Series championship. Last weekend\u2019s race in Darlington, South Carolina, afforded Byron the chance to fit in a Hurricanes game, and he\u2019s hoping to make more time, especially come the playoffs.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been to probably a handful of playoff games,\u201d Byron said. \u201cSo I hope to come back here in April and May and get to a few more.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hurricanes forward Jussi Jokinen celebrates the game-tying 1-1 goal by Tuomo Ruutu, right, during an Oct. 8, 2010,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5107],"tags":[194,29,5176,5,195,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-531439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-hurricanes","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","10":"tag-carolinahurricanes","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-hurricanes","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116319569895353336","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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