{"id":811794,"date":"2026-07-20T07:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T07:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/811794\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T07:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T07:37:09","slug":"hurricanes-assistant-gm-celebrates-with-stanley-cup-in-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/811794\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes assistant GM celebrates with Stanley Cup in New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Cranford Tennis &amp; Swim Club, Dellow noticed three 10-year-old girls who play hockey, standing back and looking at the Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe sort of said, \u2018Hey, you know what we got here?\u2019\u201d Dellow said. \u201cAnd they said, \u2018Yeah.\u2019 And we\u2019re like, \u2018Come over, have a look.\u2019 To show them the Stanley Cup, and just the reaction, the way that people react to it is unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dellow\u2019s own path to the Cup was anything but traditional. He founded mc79hockey.com, an influential analytics blog, earned a law degree from the University of Toronto and practiced civil litigation before moving into hockey. He worked for the Edmonton Oilers, wrote for The Athletic, spent five seasons with the Devils and now helps oversee data analysis, salary cap and contract work for the Hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really incredible,\u201d Dellow said. \u201cPeople would ask me sometimes, or ask (Carolina GM) Eric Tulsky, \u2018How do I do what you do?\u2019 And I\u2019m like, \u2018I don\u2019t know, man.\u2019 We just did something we were interested in and opportunities kept coming. And then one day you look around and you got the flipping Stanley Cup with you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the Cranford Tennis &amp; Swim Club, Dellow noticed three 10-year-old girls who play hockey, standing back and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-811794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}