The honeymoon is over. The one tangible accomplishment of Tom Dundon's three months as owner of the Carolina Hurricanes is an influx of retro Hartford Whalers merchandise.
The team missed the playoffs, he fired the general manager and has yet to hire another one, the coach's status is in limbo and, on top of everything else, Dundon couldn't even get the Centennial Authority to give him the new scoreboard he wanted for PNC Arena.
When Dundon in February appeared before the authority, which oversees the arena, to request that plans for a state-of-the-art new scoreboard be moved up a year, his presence was greeted with applause and acclaim, the previous owner having never bothered to show up.