Carolina leads 3-2, Karlsson's out, and the Hurricanes head to Vegas tonight with their first Stanley Cup in 20 years dangling right there. Ben Trotter on why this should be simple — and why it probably won't be.
Mitch Marner leads all 2026 playoff scorers with 29 points. The NHL has given the Conn Smythe to a losing team before. They probably won't do it again.
Rod Brind'Amour captained the Hurricanes to their only Stanley Cup. Twenty years later, he coaches them, one win from completing the rarest arc in the sport.
The Hurricanes went 12-1 through three rounds to reach the Stanley Cup Final, where they lead Vegas 3-2. An undrafted goalie, a 37-year-old captain scoring like Beliveau. Game 6 is Sunday.
Jordan Staal scored his fifth goal of the series while sprawling on the ice in Game 4. Nobody has done what he's doing in a Stanley Cup Final since Mike Bossy in 1982.
Mitch Marner scored three goals in 6 minutes and 10 seconds in the Stanley Cup Final, breaking a 69-year-old record set by Rocket Richard. The Toronto years are irrelevant now.
Marner scored the fastest hat trick in Cup Final history, breaking a 69-year-old Rocket Richard record. But then Carolina nearly came all the way back.
Vegas gave up a 4-0 lead and still won. Shea Theodore's double overtime goal is the most Vegas thing that has ever happened.
Brayden McNabb took an 87mph Nikolaj Ehlers slap shot to the face in Game 2 and never returned. Vegas played five defensemen for two-plus periods, blew a 2-0 lead, and lost in OT. The protocol worked. The system remains.
Mitch Marner leads the 2026 playoffs with 22 points in 16 games — a 1.38 PPG pace that torches his Toronto numbers. Naveen Iyer unpacks why the data always pointed here.
Aho, Jarvis, and Svechnikov went pointless in Game 1 as Vegas erased a 2-0 lead. Carolina has 48 hours to fix its top line before Game 2 on Thursday.
Tomas Hertl's game-winner lifts Vegas over Carolina 5-4 in Stanley Cup Final Game 1. The Golden Knights know how to close. The Hurricanes are learning that now.
The Hurricanes are 12-1 with a Conn Smythe frontrunner in net. The Golden Knights swept the Presidents' Trophy winners. A complete preview of the 2026 Stanley Cup Final.
Mitch Marner left Toronto and is now leading the 2026 NHL playoffs four wins from a Stanley Cup. The irony writes itself. Trotter has thoughts.
Vegas swept Colorado. Carolina closed out Montreal. A Hurricanes-Golden Knights Stanley Cup Final is the NHL's best nightmare — no coasts, no Original Six, no plan.
The Flyers fired John Tortorella. Now he's coaching in the Stanley Cup Final with Vegas. Ian Prescott on the franchise that keeps choosing wrong.
Vegas erased a 3-goal first-period lead to go up 3-0 on the Presidents' Trophy-winning Avalanche. The curse isn't bad luck — it's how these rosters are built.
