Hurricanes legend turned coach Rod Brind'Amour makes history as team wins Stanley Cup over Golden Knights

The Carolina Hurricanes deed the jackpot successful Las Vegas.

For the archetypal clip successful 2 decades, the Canes are bringing the Stanley Cup to Raleigh aft taking down the Vegas Golden Knights, 3-0, successful Game 6 connected Sunday night.

It took conscionable implicit 3 minutes for the Hurricanes to drown retired the rowdy Vegas crowd, arsenic one-time Hart Trophy victor Taylor Hall recovered the backmost of the nett for the aboriginal lead.

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Jackson Blake of the Carolina Hurricanes celebrates with teammates Taylor Hall, Logan Stankoven, Sean Walker and K'andre Miller aft scoring a extremity arsenic Brett Howden of the Vegas Golden Knights looks connected during the 2nd play of Game Six of the 2026 NHL Stanley Cup Final astatine T-Mobile Arena successful Las Vegas, Nevada, connected June 14, 2026. (Brian Babineau/NHLI via Getty Images)

Offense was dilatory for rather a while, but with conscionable nether 7 minutes to spell successful the second, it was Jackson Blake who gave the Canes a 2-0 lead. Vegas did themselves hardly immoderate favors successful the 2nd period, signaling conscionable 3 shots connected goal.

This bid had been nary alien to blown leads, but those were connected the Golden Knights side. This Carolina squad was not letting spell of anything, and proved arsenic specified by sidesplitting a cardinal Vegas powerfulness play midway done the third.

Vegas pulled Carter Hart with astir 3 minutes to go, officially entering desperation mode, but thing worked, and Nikolaj Ehlers scored an empty-netter to commencement the party. Rookie goaltender Brandon Bussi continued to basal connected his caput and preserved the shutout.

One of those blown leads was a 4-0 pb successful Game 3 that Vegas absolved with a double-overtime goal. The other, though, whitethorn conscionable beryllium the quality successful this series.

Jackson Blake and Logan Stankoven of the Carolina Hurricanes observe a extremity during the 2nd play of Game Six of the 2026 NHL Stanley Cup Final against the Vegas Golden Knights astatine T-Mobile Arena successful Las Vegas, Nevada, connected June 14, 2026. (Brian Babineau/NHLI via Getty Images)

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Bussi, who played successful little than fractional the Canes’ games successful the regular season, did not spot the crystal astatine each successful the playoffs until taking Frederik Andersen’s spot successful Game 3. In the biggest crippled of his life, helium stepped up

In Game 2, the Golden Knights were up 2-0 with 10 minutes near successful the 3rd period, but Carolina scored 3 goals to instrumentality the lead. Vegas tied it to unit overtime, but the other play did not spell their way.

Rod Brind-Amour became the 14th idiosyncratic to triumph a Stanley Cup arsenic some a subordinate and a caput manager (not including player-coaches), and the archetypal to bash truthful since Larry Robinson successful 2000 with the New Jersey Devils.

He besides is conscionable the seventh idiosyncratic to triumph the Cup coaching the squad helium won it with arsenic a player. No 1 had done that since Toe Blake did it with the Montreal Canadiens 70 years ago.

Jackson Blake and Logan Stankoven of the Carolina Hurricanes observe a extremity during the 2nd play of Game Six of the 2026 NHL Stanley Cup Final against the Vegas Golden Knights astatine T-Mobile Arena successful Las Vegas, Nevada, connected June 14, 2026. (Brian Babineau/NHLI via Getty Images)

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It’s a long-awaited breakthrough for the Hurricanes, who made the playoffs for the eighth consecutive play aft missing it successful each of the erstwhile nine. In this span, they had mislaid 3 league finals and 3 semifinals, contempt perpetually being a communal prime to triumph it all.

This time, though, they yet battled for Lord’s Stanley and did everything they could to snatch it.

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