“I don’t think anyone needs to worry about the future of the franchise in Carolina. That’s where the league believes it should be and where it will be.”
— NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, November 2015
“I don’t see the Hurricanes relocating, period. I think the Triangle is a terrific market.”
— Bettman, June 2016
“There’s no imperative for the franchise to be sold on any immediate basis, and the franchise is not moving.”
-- Bettman, Jan. 28, 2017
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman keeps saying the same thing: the Carolina Hurricanes are a franchise that will not be moving from the Triangle.