Carolina Hurricanes win Stanley Cup, beat Vegas Golden Knights 3-0 in Game 6

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The Carolina Hurricanes clinched the 2026 Stanley Cup with a 3-0 Game 6 shutout of the Vegas Golden Knights at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Rod Brind'Amour, who won the Cup as a Hurricanes player in 2006, coached Carolina to its second franchise championship. Carolina finished first in the Eastern Conference and went 16-3 in the playoffs, relying on suffocating defense rather than a single high-scoring star to secure the title.

Lachlan Irvine

@lachinthecrease.com

Congrats to the Golden Knights, who got EXACTLY what they deserved: the single worst goaltending performance in Stanley Cup history. Puck don't lie.

36145d ago

Artorious McJenkins 7

It looks so good on him and them. No team could have deserved to lose more.

Marielle ⚓️🔱4

You love to see it

Mama Bear 🇨🇦3

Cry me a river Hart. Karma arrives at the perfect time.

The Athletic

@theathletic.com

Twenty years later, the Carolina Hurricanes have won their second Stanley Cup 🏆 nyti.ms/4eljHgW

24745d ago

Alex Sar #DonTheSash3

Congratulations to the Carolina Hurricanes for winning the Stanley Cup for the second time in Franchise history. #StanleyCup

Mark Norman

@mnorman87.bsky.social

Did not think I could hate-watch a team harder than last year’s Panthers, but along came this year’s Vegas Golden Knights.

32345d ago

bodacious955

🤣🤣 can you say shut out by the hurricanes, defense and no stanley cup win for poor vegas!!

Sean A. Morgan3

Right? Not a Canes fan, except last night, I was.

Ben Moser (he/him)

@benmoser.bsky.social

16-3 in the playoffs. The Carolina Hurricanes absolutely obliterated every lazy, stupid narrative about what they needed to become in order to win it all.

27244d ago

Tomacracy3

Both The Canes and Knicks with 16-3 postseasons. Gotta be pretty rare and equally impressive.

Cheese Biscuits FTW!3

But, but, but ... they still didn't have to play any hard teams... 🙄

Suddenly Susan2

Yeah all those people saying they didn’t have what it took should be very embarrassed. Looking at you PK Subban.

Adam Herman

@adamzherman.bsky.social

The Carolina Hurricanes finished first in the Eastern Conference, then went 16-3 in the playoffs. All with (basically) zero trade deadline action. Low-key one of the most dominant seasons in recent memory.

24845d ago

The New York Times

@nytimes.com

Breaking News from @theathletic.com: The Carolina Hurricanes captured their first Stanley Cup in 20 years after defeating the Vegas Golden Knights in Game 6.

17045d ago

Charlie O'Connor

@charlieoconn.bsky.social

The Carolina Hurricanes have won the Stanley Cup. And BSH alum Eric Tulsky built a Stanley Cup-winning team.

15545d ago

TSN

@tsnofficial.bsky.social

YOUR 2025-26 STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS, THE CAROLINA HURRICANES 🏆 The storm has surged to the top of the hockey world for the first time in TWO DECADES! 🌀😱 #StanleyCupFinal

12045d ago

NBC News

@nbcnews.com

The Carolina Hurricanes won their first Stanley Cup championship in 20 years, using a suffocating defense in Game 6 to shut down the Vegas Golden Knights.

9345d ago

City of Raleigh Government

@raleighgov.bsky.social

The Carolina Hurricanes are Stanley Cup champions for the second time! Let’s go Canes!!!

4945d ago

Walt Ruff (Bot)

@notwaltruff.bsky.social

They've done it! The Carolina Hurricanes are the 2026 Stanley Cup Champions!

5045d ago

Secretary of Defense Rock

@sodrock.bsky.social

Thank you to the Carolina hurricanes for reviving short kings

5945d ago

Erin Candy 🍒🇨🇦

@erincandy.bsky.social

So happy the golden knights didn’t win the cup. Also it’s fkn hilarious that if Mitch Marner wasn’t such a little bitch and didn’t nix the trade to the Canes bc he wanted to go to Vegas as a free agent, he would be a cup winner rn

4544d ago

koobyn3

Actually I think the Canes fans should be grateful he declined the trade. I genuinely believe he would’ve cost Carolina the cup

Rich T 🇨🇦3

Typical Marner, he disappeared when it mattered most. Took him a bit longer than usual, but it happens every time.

Ryan Henkel

@ryanhenkel.bsky.social

The Carolina Hurricanes didn't have a single player in the top-20 of league scoring this year. They didn't have a single goaltender finish with a 0.900 save percentage or higher. Not a single member of the organization was even a finalist for any end-of-season awards.

4045d ago

Ryan Henkel26

Yet in the end, the Carolina Hurricanes are the 2026 Stanley Cup Champions.

L02

The balance: a winning blend! 🤩

Matt Lombardo

@mattlombardo.bsky.social

Rod Brind’Amour was my absolute favorite player growing up. I wore the jersey half tucked in playing street hockey, the whole deal. Awesome to see a Hurricanes team that totally embodies their coach in every sense win him another Stanley Cup. What a run for Carolina.

4645d ago

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