The Carolina Hurricanes Are Stanley Cup Champions Again

The funniest part of the whole run is that Barstool has been calling it for weeks. There's a hype cut floating around suggesting the Canes had been secretly practicing the Cup lift all season — players hoisting random benches and boards over their heads in the team facility like it was a workout. It was a joke. Until it wasn't.

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The Canes had been practicing lifting the Stanley Cup all season long… They just didn’t know it

Over on Spittin' Chiclets, Paul Bissonnette called Carolina "the most disrespected wagon probably to ever win the Stanley Cup," which tracks. Nobody outside of Raleigh picked them. Whitney himself spent half the year saying they couldn't win without a true #1 center, then took a victory lap when they did, which his co-host Matt Murley immediately roasted him for on air. Welcome to being a Canes fan — the team is finally good enough that the takes about them get to be petty instead of pitying.

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“The most disrespected wagon probably to ever win the Stanley Cup” -Paul Bissonnette on the Carolina Hurricanes

Parade's Thursday. Brind'Amour is going to spend the entire summer carrying that thing around like it's a kettlebell. And somewhere, a Vegas fan named Blutman is still staring at a wall. Storm Surge for life.