{"id":2583,"date":"2026-06-16T18:05:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T18:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=2583"},"modified":"2026-06-16T18:05:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T18:05:35","slug":"in-a-new-role-with-the-same-joy-rod-brindamour-celebrates-another-canes-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=2583","title":{"rendered":"In a new role, with the same joy, Rod Brind\u2019Amour celebrates another Canes title"},"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>A throng of Carolina Hurricanes skaters gathered around head coach Rod Brind\u2019Amour in the aftermath of the team\u2019s Game 6 win over Vegas in the Stanley Cup Final.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=2581\">Raleigh-area trucker checks lottery numbers, gets a shock: \u2018What am I seeing\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With each player having had a chance to hoist the cup, kiss it, and pass it to a teammate, finally, it was Brind\u2019Amour\u2019s turn.<\/p>\n<p>Goalie Pyotr Kochetkov did the honors, searching Brind\u2019Amour out among the cacophony of cameras and confetti, handing it to him at about the red line, near the player benches.<\/p>\n<p>Brind\u2019Amour held the trophy for a moment, then tossed it in the air like it was a playful, 34.5-pound toddler. He caught it with the same care, cradling it, hugging it, as if it had been 20 years since he\u2019d done so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was just a little bear hug. I don\u2019t know,\u201d Brind\u2019Amour said, letting out a laugh at the postgame news conference. \u201cI wasn\u2019t sure I was going to raise it over my head because that\u2019s more of a player thing, but I had no choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It <i>had<\/i> been 20 years, almost to the day, since he\u2019d last held Lord Stanley\u2019s Cup in a setting like this. And, truly, he had no choice.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, then the captain of the Hurricanes\u2019 first Stanley Cup-winning team, Brind\u2019Amour\u2019s excitement in the moment of celebration eschewed NHL protocol. Instead of waiting for NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman to pass him the Cup, Brind\u2019Amour grabbed it off the table and shimmied and shook on the ice, exuberantly hoisting it over his head, unknowingly creating an enduring, iconic image.<\/p>\n<p>This year, it was Canes captain Jordan Staal who first touched the trophy. He <i>did<\/i> wait for Bettman to hand it over. Brind\u2019Amour was No. 25 in line. And, he said, that\u2019s the way it should be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t even know what you\u2019re thinking at that point,\u201d Brind\u2019Amour said on the ice as the celebration continued around him. \u201cIt\u2019s more seeing all the players look at ya, and how happy they are for me. But it\u2019s just, it\u2019s the other way around, you know. I just want this for them, and they felt it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is why this is the most special trophy in the world, because \u2026 how you have to acquire it, what goes into it, and what it means to everyone, because they know all the sacrifice everybody has put in, and you see it pouring out of everybody. It\u2019s the greatest feeling in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Which is why, again, he had no choice, striking a pose similar to his spontaneous 2006 moment, soaking in yet another iconic moment on championship ice.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=2580\">How Carolina Hurricanes staff trained players all year to lift Stanley Cup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brind\u2019Amour is the fourth person in NHL history to win the Stanley Cup with the same franchise as captain and head coach, joining Hockey Hall of Famers Toe Blake (Montreal Canadiens), Hap Day (Toronto Maple Leafs) and Cooney Weiland (Boston Bruins), all of whom did so decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s the 14th individual to win as a coach and player for any team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe luckiest part of this whole thing is that we hired him, and he literally is the most important part of it all,\u201d Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon told members of the media while he, too, circulated among the postgame chaos. \u201cYou can\u2019t do anything without the players, but I think everybody knows he gives you an advantage every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brind\u2019Amour, as usual, reflected that praise back at Dundon, who hired the longtime assistant to be the team\u2019s head coach prior to the 2018-19 season. All Brind\u2019Amour has done since then is guide the Canes to eight consecutive NHL postseasons, four Eastern Conference Finals \u2014 and oh yeah, a Stanley Cup title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got to give him a lot of credit for this whole thing,\u201d Brind\u2019Amour said of Dundon. \u201cNo. 1, he gave me an opportunity. Without him, I\u2019m not sitting here. I just know it. So, I\u2019ve got to give him credit there. Then, his commitment to trying to build a winner is there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe went out and got us players that we needed, and here we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>None more important, Brind\u2019Amour often says, than Staal, who embodies the same qualities that his coach exhibited in his career, and particularly in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been saying this forever, I don\u2019t know where we\u2019d be without him,\u201d Brind\u2019Amour said of Staal. \u201cI put him out there every night against the best player, every night every shift, and we\u2019re winning all the time. Yeah, we didn\u2019t win it all until now, but we were right there every year, and it\u2019s because of a guy like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And, it\u2019s because of a coach like Brind\u2019Amour \u2014 who in 26 years since his trade from Philadelphia has carved an indelible legacy in the Carolina sports landscape \u2014 that the Hurricanes have a chance to extend their run of excellence.<\/p>\n<p>He is the unassuming, unwitting face of the birth \u2014 and rebirth \u2014 of hockey in Raleigh. The city and the state have adopted him as one of their own, and he, in turn, shepherds the team and the organization accordingly \u2014 even the latest addition, a 34.5-pound, 134-year-old toddler named Stanley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt takes everyone,\u201d Brind\u2019Amour said. \u201cAnd we are a family. It\u2019s a clich\u00e9, but I\u2019m telling ya, 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>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/durhammovinghub.com\/?p=2578\">Looking to commemorate the Canes Stanley Cup win? 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