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LAS VEGAS \u2014 The day before the Carolina Hurricanes reached the NHL\u2019s summit, their coach reflected on the climb.<\/p>\n

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After years of progress and setbacks, growth and stagnation, minor tweaks and wholesale changes, Carolina\u2019s moment arrived on Sunday at T-Mobile Arena. Coach Rod Brind\u2019Amour\u2019s team is a champion now, in the realest, fullest sense of the term, beating the Vegas Golden Knights 3-0 in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final to finish off a dominant 16-3 postseason run.<\/p>\n

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For years, the Hurricanes operated on parallel tracks, largely following regular-season dominance with late-stage playoff disappointment, earning admiration for a remarkably high floor and prompting questions over whether they\u2019d bumped a ceiling that wasn\u2019t quite high enough.<\/p>\n

We have our answer. Carolina\u2019s players, coaching staff and front office never doubted that their validation would come and that their process was sound. On Saturday, in some of his final moments as a coach without a Stanley Cup victory, Brind\u2019Amour reinforced it all one last time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know what works,\u201d he said. \u201cI know we didn\u2019t win, and we haven\u2019t won yet, and all that. I get it. And that\u2019s our goal, of course. But I know what doesn\u2019t work. I know if we play a different way, we\u2019re not going to be even knocking on the door.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the Hurricanes knocked it down \u2014 and they did it their way, after nearly a decade spent staying true to a bone-deep, fundamental belief that their method of doing business could work on the grandest scale, even as meaningful chunks of the hockey world had begun to wonder.<\/p>\n

Three times between 2019 and 2025 the Hurricanes advanced to the Eastern Conference final. Three times \u2014 owing to some combination of bad luck and a lack of a finishing kick \u2014 they lost.<\/p>\n

Their roster remains one built around the chosen style of Brind\u2019Amour, their coach the past eight seasons and former captain. Carolina plays with relentless pressure, tireless forechecking, aggressive defensive play and limitless belief. Every NHL team holds similar values. Few match the Hurricanes\u2019 level of dedication to the cause.<\/p>\n

The 2025-26 version had its foundational pieces: Jordan Staal, the 37-year-old captain, Brind\u2019Amour proxy and all-situations war horse; Jaccob Slavin, a top-pair defenseman and a savant of positional hockey; Sebastian Aho and Andrei Svechnikov, first-line talents tasked at times with sublimating their offensive gifts in pursuit of the greater good; Seth Jarvis, a three-time 30-goal scorer, lab-built for Brind\u2019Amour\u2019s system. All were Carolina draft picks, save for Staal, who\u2019s been with the organization since 2012.<\/p>\n

The group also had late-stage additions: Logan Stankoven, their 5-foot-8 leading playoff goal-scorer and a long-sought impact center on the second line; Nikolaj Ehlers, a dynamic force at five-on-five and on the power play; K\u2019Andre Miller, a supremely talented defenseman identified by Carolina\u2019s front office and unlocked by its coaching staff.<\/p>\n

All three were added at the 2025 trade deadline or later. Stankoven was general manager Eric Tulsky\u2019s primary return for Mikko Rantanen, a superstar winger acquired in January 2025 and flipped weeks later to the Dallas Stars. Tulsky acquired Miller from the New York Rangers, in part, with the first-round pick he added as part of the Rantanen shuffle. Ehlers signed in free agency, taking a portion of the money that would\u2019ve been earmarked for a contract Rantanen chose not to sign.<\/p>\n

The end result is a lineup without a top-10 player but with talent infused throughout \u2014 a strength-in-numbers approach taken to its logical end. Goaltender Brandon Bussi, who started three of Carolina\u2019s wins in the Final and made 22 saves for the shutout in Game 6, was a waiver-wire find ahead of the season. Shayne Gostisbehere produced nearly a point per game in 2025-26 as a $3.2 million power-play quarterback. The list goes on.<\/p>\n

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That they beat a Western Conference champion with Cup-winning DNA dating back to the 2017 expansion draft was fitting.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were the Golden Misfits here a few years ago, and they were all guys that were kind of cast-offs. Our team kind of feels similar,\u201d Hurricanes forward Taylor Hall said on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, we have the guys that they\u2019ve drafted here and guys that have been here for a long time,\u201d Hall said, \u201cbut there\u2019s also a few of us that played for multiple teams, and we\u2019ve come here and played a lot better, had bigger roles than we had other places, and I think we take pride in that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hall would know. The No. 1 pick in 2010 and NHL MVP in 2016, he has also played for seven separate franchises and joined Carolina as yet another piece of the second Rantanen trade.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, he scored Carolina\u2019s first goal, his 19th point of the postseason. In the Hurricanes\u2019 four series-clinching games overall, he had a franchise-record three goals and nine points. He also set a franchise record with 11 points in nine road games. What Hall represents, writ large, is something previous versions of the Hurricanes lacked: elite sheen, a player equally capable of finishing at a high level and finding teammates in what Tulsky called \u201cpremium ice.\u201d<\/p>\n

The teammates Hall most frequently found over the course of the season, Stankoven and Jackson Blake, combined on Carolina\u2019s second goal with six minutes, 29 seconds remaining in the second period. Stankoven earned zone time with a relentless forechecking sequence and found Blake at the top of the circles for his seventh goal of the playoffs, redirected off Vegas winger Mitch Marner past goaltender Carter Hart.<\/p>\n

Ehlers capped the scoring with an empty-netter.<\/p>\n

Bussi, who came on for Frederik Andersen in the third period of Game 3, finished the final with 81 saves on 87 shots despite going two months between starts. The 27-year-old, who played ECHL games as recently as three seasons ago and was only making his 43rd NHL appearance, was especially sharp late in the first period, helping preserve a 1-0 lead as the Golden Knights pressed, including making a sprawling, chest-first save to rob sharp-shooter Pavel Dorofeyev on a power play. In the third, with Vegas\u2019 net empty, he robbed Tomas Hertl while sitting on his bottom.<\/p>\n

In February, Carolina signed Bussi to a three-year contract extension worth less than $2 million per season.<\/p>\n

Blake, who scored the series-clinching goal in overtime against the Philadelphia Flyers in the second round, finished the postseason with multiple points in three consecutive series-clinching games. At 22, he\u2019s the youngest player in NHL history to do so in a potential Cup-clinching game. Last summer, he signed an eight-year extension and has the look of a long-term piece and running mate for Stankoven.<\/p>\n

Carolina\u2019s final goal, an empty-netter with 1:08 left, was scored by Ehlers, a player who spent the season blending high-end skill with a do-anything mentality that made him a seamless, additive fit on Staal\u2019s wing and helped Carolina add a third scoring line to its mix.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the second championship for the Hurricanes, who relocated from Hartford in 1997. Brind\u2019Amour, fittingly, captained Carolina to its previous Cup win in 2006. A banner of him hoisting the Cup is one of many lining the tunnels of T-Mobile Arena right now, hung by the NHL to commemorate the occasion. At the next Cup Final, wherever it\u2019s held, there will be a similar shot of Staal, at a summit of his own.<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared in The Athletic. <\/ins><\/p>\n

\u00a9 2026 The New York Times Company<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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