30 Sep
Carolina Hurricanes co-owner Thomas Thewes died after a two year battle with leukemia.
Carolina Hurricanes co-owner Thomas Thewes died after a two year battle with leukemia. He was 76.
Thewes, who passed away Sunday, most recently served as vice chairman of the board of directors of the Compuware Corporation, the company he founded in 1973 along with Peter Karmanos Jr. and Allen Cutting.
Along with Karmanos and current president Jim Rutherford, Thewes acquired the NHLs Hartford Whalers on June 28, 1994, and the team moved to North Carolina to become the Hurricanes in 1997.
Thewes also was the co-owner of the Plymouth Whalers of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) and the Florida Everblades of the ECHL.