Rod Brind’Amour and Hurricanes agree to multi-year contract extension after losing Rangers

The Carolina Hurricanes have agreed to a multi-year extension with head coach Rod Brind’Amour, the team announced Sunday.

The news comes three days after the Hurricanes were eliminated in the second round in six games by the New York Rangers.

Brind’Amour, who won the Stanley Cup in 2006 as a player with the Hurricanes, spent six seasons as Carolina’s head coach.

During his tenure, the Hurricanes earned a 278-130-44 regular season record and qualified for six consecutive postseason appearances.

The Hurricanes have finished first in the Metropolitan Division three times in that span and have topped 110 points in each of the last three regular seasons.

The Canes have 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 NHL’s top coach.

Assistant coaches Jeff Daniels and Tim Gleason were also given multi-year extensions.

Gleason leads the Hurricanes’ penalty kill, the NHL’s most efficient shortstop unit in the 2023-24 regular season.

Video coach Chris Huffine and goaltending coach Paul Schonfelder also agreed to multi-year extensions.

The men behind the bench aren’t the only members of the current Hurricanes core that will be returning to Carolina in the next few years.

Although the Hurricanes have a number of restricted free agent decisions to make this offseason, the team already has core players Sebastian Aho, Andrei Svechnikov and Jesperi Kotkaniemi each locked up for at least the next five seasons.

Aho, Svechnikov and Kotkaniemi’s third-round comeback this postseason was cut short by the President’s Trophy-winning Rangers as the team’s overall playoff record under Brind’Amour dropped to 38-36.

Despite years of regular season success, the Canes have not been back to the Stanley Cup Final since Brind’Amour led them there in 2006.

Despite another disappointing playoff showing for this perennial contender, the extension signals a vote of confidence in Brind’Amour and indicates that Carolina can plan to return with that core for what it hopes will be a deeper playoff run in 2025.

Brind’Amour and general manager Don Waddell will address extensions during Monday’s season-ending press conference at 10 a.m. ET.