Carolina Hurricanes Stanley Cup Run, By the Numbers

Irrefutable truth: Raleigh is indeed a hockey town—and now the whole world has been put on notice. The Cap City was absolutely electric during the Canes’ historic run for the Cup, skating it home exactly 20 years after the first championship—and turning an already hockey-obsessed region into the center of the sports world.

CUP CHECK

1. 24: Hours each Canes player gets alone with the Cup. No pressure.
2. 5: Consecutive Stanley Cup Final games with a goal for playoff MVP Jordan Staal, earning him the MVP Conn Smythe Trophy. 
3. TWO: Jaccob Slavin joins Ken Morrow as the only Americans to win Olympic gold and a Stanley Cup in the same year.
4. 7: Rod Brind’Amour is just the seventh person in NHL history to lift the Stanley Cup as both a player and a head coach for the same team.
5. ZERO: Golden Knights goals in the Cup-clinching Game 6 shutout 🚌
6. 16–3: The Canes posted the fewest losses by a Stanley Cup champion since the 1988 Oilers.
7. TWO: Stanley Cups won by the Hurricanes—2006 and 2026
8. 20: Years Raleigh waited to throw another Stanley Cup parade.
9. 1st: Goaltender Brandon Bussi became the first American goalie to make his first three career playoff starts in the Stanley Cup Final—and win.
10. FIRST: Hurricane to touch the Stanley Cup in 2006: Rod Brind’Amour
11. 34.5 lbs: How much the Stanley Cup weighs

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