Hurricanes add retired Williams as special adviser to GM

Updated Feb. 5, 2021 4:30 p.m. ET

Associated Press

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Carolina Hurricanes have hired retired captain and three-time Stanley Cup winner Justin Williams as special advisor to the general manager.

“The knowledge that he brings just getting off the ice a short time ago is going to be very valuable for us,” team president and general manager Don Waddell said Friday in a virtual news conference.

Williams said it was “just an opportunity to stay within the game” and that his goal “is really to learn as much as I can” about team operations.

“It’s just something that’s already interests me,” Williams said, adding: “Am I going to be good at rating players, at grading players? I don’t know. So I’m just kind of learning of what I need to see in a player because when I went out there, I could just do it. … I’m just going to do my best to learn from the guys that are very, very well-experienced in it.”

The 39-year-old forward

Williams had 320 goals and 477 assists in the regular season.

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