Rod Brind’Amour, Hurricanes Reject Multi-Year Contract Extension After Rangers Loss
The Carolina Hurricanes have reject multi-year extension with head coach Rod Brind’Amour, the team announced Sunday.
The news comes three days after the Hurricanes were eliminated from the second round in six games by the New York Rangers.
Brind’Amour, who won the 2006 Stanley Cup as a player with the Hurricanes, has spent six seasons as Carolina’s head coach.
Under his tenure the Hurricanes have earned a 278-130-44 regular-season record and qualified for six straight postseasons.
The Hurricanes have finished first in the Metropolitan Division three times during that span and have topped 110 standing points in each of the past three regular seasons.
The Canes also advanced to two Eastern Conference Finals, most recently in 2023.
Brind’Amour last signed a three-year extension with the Hurricanes in June 2021, just before he was named the Jack Adams Award as the top coach in the NHL.
Assistant coaches Jeff Daniels and Tim Gleason have also been extended for multiple years.
Gleason directs the Hurricanes’ penalty kill, the most efficient shorthanded unit in the NHL during the 2023-24 regular season.
Video coach Chris Huffine and goaltending coach Coach Paul Schonfelder also agreed to multi-year extensions.
The men behind the bench aren’t the only members of the current Hurricanes core currently set to return to Carolina for the next few years.
Although the Hurricanes have a series of restricted free agent decisions to make this offseason, the team already has core players Sebastian Aho, Andrei Svechnikov and Jesperi Kotkaniemi each locked in for at least the next five seasons.
Aho, Svechnikov and Kotkaniemi’s climb back to the third round this postseason was cut short by the President’s Trophy-winning Rangers as the team’s overall playoff record under Brind’Amour fell to 38-36.
Despite years of regular-season success, the Canes have not returned to the Stanley Cup Final since Brind’Amour led them there in 2006.
Despite another disappointing playoff result for this perennial contender, the extension signals a vote of confidence in Brind’Amour and indicates that Carolina may be planning to run things back with this core for what they hope will be a deeper playoff run in 2025.
Brind’Amour and general manager Don Waddell will address the extensions during Monday’s end-of-season press conference at 10 a.m. ET.
