{"id":2510,"date":"2026-06-15T17:35:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T17:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=2510"},"modified":"2026-06-15T17:35:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T17:35:22","slug":"at-long-last-hurricanes-core-groups-effort-is-validated-with-a-stanley-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=2510","title":{"rendered":"At long last, Hurricanes\u2019 core group\u2019s effort is validated with a Stanley Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article280707640.html\">Read our AI Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Only in professional sports can 14 years feel like a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>Such was the feeling for Jaccob Slavin, the longest tenured Hurricanes skater on this 2026 Stanley Cup Champion team after Jordan Staal.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=2508\">NC agency says it has no \u2018public\u2019 records of sexually suggestive texts by Causey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Staal \u2014 who had already won a Stanley Cup with Pittsburgh \u2014 has been with the Hurricanes for 14 years, as well, after a trade in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Sebastian Aho\u2019s \u201cforever\u201d was more like 11 years.<\/p>\n<p>Those three players remain on the Hurricanes\u2019 roster from the \u201cbefore\u201d times \u2014 before Tom Dundon assumed ownership of the team; before Rod Brind\u2019Amour was named the head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Add in Jordan Martinook and Andrei Svechnikov, who joined the Canes the same season as Brind\u2019Amour, and that core five has been through a lot with this franchise.<\/p>\n<p>And they\u2019re not shy about reminiscing, especially in the aftermath of an historic win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a long wait, a lot of disappointment, a lot of all kinds of feelings not being able to go all the way,\u201d Aho said frankly as the minutes ticked from Sunday night into Monday morning. \u201cHonestly, the wait and the work is all worth it. It\u2019s unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Slavin, ever pensive and thoughtful in his answers, paused his family celebration as his children bounced along around the ice with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach season brings its own story, right?\u201d Slavin said, taking a moment to consider his answer. \u201cWe definitely had close calls, close calls, close calls, and now to finally get over that hump and be here, and get the job done, it\u2019s hard, but at the same time, it\u2019s awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other than Staal, Slavin has put in the most time with the Hurricanes of any player. He remembers well playing in front of half-empty arenas, and playing only 82 games a year before watching the playoffs from home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a long time coming,\u201d Staal said. \u201cThe first couple years, we couldn\u2019t make playoffs, couldn\u2019t fill the stands, and now we\u2019re here, and we got the Cup, we got the job done. There\u2019s so many amazing people in our organization that got it to be at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of those people within the organization that\u2019s had plenty to do with its championship rise is general manager Eric Tulsky, who began with the Canes in \u2026 2014. He ascended from part-time analytics consultant to general manager over 10 years, and his fingerprints are all over this team\u2019s constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=2507\">Woman charged in arson fire that sent 3 Durham firefighters, others to hospital<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a long time coming,\u201d Tulsky said Sunday. \u201cThis team has been built the right way for a long time, and just gotten better and better year after year and we finally got where we wanted to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martinook, often called a \u201cglue\u201d player, or a \u201cheart-and-soul\u201d player by his teammates and coaches, came to Carolina from an Arizona organization that struggled to achieve success in the postseason. All Carolina has done since Martinook arrived is make the playoffs \u2013 and make deep runs \u2014 only to fall just shy of the ultimate goal \u2014 a Stanley Cup championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re over the hump now, right?\u201d Martinook said, a wide smile gleaming through months of beard growth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just shows sometimes, you\u2019ve got to fail to succeed,\u201d Martinook added. \u201cObviously we wish we would have won it more, but it doesn\u2019t matter, we won it this year, and that\u2019s all that matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The trick to the Canes\u2019 ultimate success, of course, was blending the Canes\u2019 core and the team\u2019s newcomers, a job tasked to Brind\u2019Amour. Under his tutelage, the Hurricanes finally reached the top \u2013 together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt takes everyone,\u201d Brind\u2019Amour said. \u201cAnd we are a family. It\u2019s a cliche, but I\u2019m telling you, this is what we have here. We built something really special, and it\u2019s been there for a long time. It just never quite was able to crack through, and finally we did here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The next question \u2014 after the team celebrates, of course \u2014 is whether the Canes can add to the string of recent repeat Stanley Cup champions, add to the legacy this team \u2014 this core group \u2014 has established in Raleigh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce you get a taste, and it hasn\u2019t really even sunk in yet and I haven\u2019t even tasted it yet,\u201d Martinook said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to celebrate our (butts) off and then regroup.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even Tulsky, who is always saying the team is \u201calways looking to get better,\u201d had an addendum to his reply Sunday:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a hell of a team, it just is,\u201d Tulsky said. \u201cWe\u2019re always looking to get better, but it\u2019s an incredible team where it is now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=2505\">Carolina Hurricanes stifle Vegas to capture first Stanley Cup since 2006<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published <span class=\"inline-block\">June 15, 2026 at 7:00 AM<span>.<\/span><\/span><!-- --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of near misses, Carolina\u2019s core \u2014 Staal, Slavin, Aho, Martinook and Svechnikov \u2014 wins the 2026 Stanley Cup under coach Rod Brind\u2019Amour in Raleigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-read-todays-edition"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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