Bobby Orr
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via Kukla/TN&O:
RALEIGH - In each of the past 12 years, Peter Karmanos would sit down at the end of the hockey season with his checkbook open. The Carolina Hurricanes owner would make out a check to cover the annual cash shortfall of his National Hockey League team, often a figure that reached into eight digits.
Winning the Stanley Cup last June didn't just put a smile on Karmanos' face. It put money in his pocket. After losses exceeding $145 million since he moved the team here from Hartford, Conn., in 1997, the Hurricanes turned a profit of about $10 million last season.
http://www.newsobserver.com/796/story/506256.html
RALEIGH - In each of the past 12 years, Peter Karmanos would sit down at the end of the hockey season with his checkbook open. The Carolina Hurricanes owner would make out a check to cover the annual cash shortfall of his National Hockey League team, often a figure that reached into eight digits.
Winning the Stanley Cup last June didn't just put a smile on Karmanos' face. It put money in his pocket. After losses exceeding $145 million since he moved the team here from Hartford, Conn., in 1997, the Hurricanes turned a profit of about $10 million last season.
http://www.newsobserver.com/796/story/506256.html