Canes name Eric Tulsky GM (Remove the "Acting" Title)

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

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[Peasy]

It finally happened.

 

[Empoleon8771]

Is anyone surprised? Tlusky has been a top candidate for multiple GM roles and I figure he'd be gone immediately if he was passed over for the Canes GM role.

 

[Ouroboros]

So Tulsky is the guy who gets to have no decision making power/be Dundon's lap-dog?

Good for him, I guess.

 

[Metroid]

Didn't everyone know this already like last year?

 

[BLNY]

So Tulsky is the guy who gets to have no decision making power/be Dundon's lap-dog?

Good for him, I guess.

Make a few million to be a puppet? There are worse things.

 

[spockBokk]

Make a few million to be a puppet? There are worse things.

Let’s be real here, he works for Dundon. He’d be lucky to have dental.

 

[BLNY]

Let’s be real here, he works for Dundon. He’d be lucky to have dental.

Fair enough lol.

 

[CanadienShark]

They didn't tell me...

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

So Tulsky is the guy who gets to have no decision making power/be Dundon's lap-dog?

Good for him, I guess.

They recorded when Tulsky learned this info.

 

[HolyGhost]

analytics guys become GM this will be fun

 

[Fatass]

analytics guys become GM this will be fun

Canes going to start a decline?

 

[HolyGhost]

Canes going to start a decline?

I like and understand analytics in hockey. The problem, as many have pointed out before is the analytics in hockey is still in birthing stages despite what many believe. There is a lot of hockey that you can not put into numbers--no matter how hard you try,

 

[Michoulicious]

He'll have the privilege to beg Dundon for a AHL affiliate!

 

[bleedgreen]

Canes going to start a decline?

He’s the one who’s been driving the decisions with pro players for years. He’s doing the same thing he’s been doing the whole time, only he has a new title and hopefully a new paycheck.

 

[Svechhammer]

Tulsky has been driving this ship for a while, now he just gets to be the one on the phone as well. Just gets to take on the whole role rather than a portion.

This was always the expected outcome of Waddell resigning. Tulsky was going to be GM somewhere, we made sure it was in Raleigh.

 

[tarheelhockey]

He’s the one who’s been driving the decisions with pro players for years. He’s doing the same thing he’s been doing the whole time, only he has a new title and hopefully a new paycheck.

Yeah I’m not getting the comments in here. Tulsky has all his highly successful experience on the hockey ops side. The business and PR side is what he’ll have to learn at a higher level.

 

[NyQuil]

I may have read the headline as Jiri Tlusty as GM.

 

[eojsmada]

When your other choice is Jarmo....no surprise

 

[LakeLivin]

So many who are so ignorant about how the Canes front office operates. Oh well . . .

 

[MessierII]

Canes aren’t going to spend money. Shocker.

 

[Goptor]

Only thing that makes sense.

It would have been a mess bringing in a new GM this late.

 

[TMLegend]

Curious how this goes. GMs who come from an analytical background haven't exactly worked out in the NHL so far.

 

[jetsforever]

Cool, seems like he could do well

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

Curious how this goes. GMs who come from an analytical background haven't exactly worked out in the NHL so far.

Two major differences here is age and experience. Tulsky and Dubas both entered the NHL around 2014, but Dubas was 29 and Tulsky was 40. Dubas was hired as a GM in 2018 when he was only 33. Tulsky has worked his way up the chain working with old-school hockey scouts and executives for a decade and has finally been hired as a GM in his late 40s. Don't even get me started on Chayka, who was basically a 26 year old kid with a year's experience when he got a GM gig. Yeah, they all have an analytical background, but Tulsky's brand is the more mature and wise version of that approach.