James Mirtle

And, and he, I don't think you can deny that Tom Dundon did a great job in Carolina.

I mean, I didn't even realize how bad things were in Carolina until I went back and looked at what it was like in 2018, when he bought the team, they had the lowest payroll in the entire league for like four years straight.

They were tied with the Arizona coyotes who were going through a bankruptcy proceedings.

Their building was falling apart.

They didn't have a lease agreement that extended very far.

Um, they had missed the playoffs as something that was a seven or eight years in a row.

It was, they were in really, really bad shape and they were definitely a relocation candidate at that point.

And then you go down there now and you know, the revenues there have skyrocketed.

The building is full.

They have a sellout streak, 166 games.

As of the last, as of game one in the Stanley cup final, the players are happy there.

They've got a great GM in Eric Tulsky.

They've got a great coach in Rod Brindamore, and it's turned into a model franchise.

So I don't know how you can really question what Tom Dundon's done in Carolina.

Yeah, I mean, the way that Eric Tulsky, the GM down there, put it was that he wants to find value.

So he doesn't give him limitations on his budget in terms of the player payroll.

If you look, Carolina's been spent at the cap for the last five years.

They're under the cap a little bit this year, mostly because there wasn't anything for them to acquire in free agency with the way that it was last summer.

But I think on the other side of things, on the business side of things, Tom Dundon doesn't like spending money

If he doesn't have to.