{"id":31885,"date":"2026-06-02T23:55:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/2026-stanley-cup-final-picks-who-wins-hurricanes-golden-knights\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T23:55:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:55:42","slug":"2026-stanley-cup-final-picks-who-wins-hurricanes-golden-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/2026-stanley-cup-final-picks-who-wins-hurricanes-golden-knights\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Stanley Cup Final picks: Who wins Hurricanes-Golden Knights?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The 2026 Stanley Cup playoff field has been whittled down to two teams, and the Stanley Cup Final begins Tuesday on ABC (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/game\/_\/gameId\/401874171\/golden-knights-hurricanes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">8 p.m. ET<\/a>) between the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"b7b7b58e-e579-b39d-fb2d-70213dd93502\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/car\/carolina-hurricanes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> and the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"dd8e7d92-918d-4ec1-4e50-c328fc09467a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/vgk\/vegas-golden-knights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vegas Golden Knights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Will the Hurricanes raise the Cup for the first time since 2006? Or will the Golden Knights be champions again, just like in 2023?<\/p>\n<p>Before the series begins, ESPN&#8217;s experts have identified their picks, including the number of games it will take to clinch the title.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>More:<\/strong><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/schedule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Full schedule<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/espn\/betting\/story\/_\/id\/44686270\/2025-nhl-stanley-cup-playoffs-championship-odds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stanley Cup odds<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/48933970\/2026-nhl-playoffs-stanley-cup-final-rankings-top-players-golden-knights-hurricanes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Top players in SCF<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/48920188\/2026-nhl-playoffs-stanley-cup-final-vegas-golden-knights-carolina-hurricanes-draft-trades-free-agency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How Cup finalists were built<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/48475221\/nhl-2026-offseason-schedule-keys-draft-picks-trades-free-agency-cap-space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Offseason guide for eliminated teams<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"6px\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/i\/mlb\/infographics\/greyline.png\" width=\"100%\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"floatleft\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/i\/teamlogos\/nhl\/500\/car.png&amp;h=110&amp;w=110\" width=\"50\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"floatleft\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/i\/teamlogos\/nhl\/500\/vgk.png&amp;h=110&amp;w=110\" width=\"50\"\/><\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>Sean Allen:<\/strong> Hurricanes in six<br \/><strong>Roxy Bernstein:<\/strong> Hurricanes in seven<br \/><strong>John Buccigross:<\/strong> Golden Knights in six<br \/><strong>Stormy Buonantony:<\/strong> Golden Knights in six<br \/><strong>Cassie Campbell-Pascall:<\/strong> Golden Knights in six<br \/><strong>Sachin Chandan:<\/strong> Golden Knights in six<br \/><strong>Meghan Chayka:<\/strong> Hurricanes in six<br \/><strong>Gregg Colli:<\/strong> Golden Knights in six<br \/><strong>Ray Ferraro:<\/strong> Hurricanes in seven<br \/><strong>Erik Johnson:<\/strong> Golden Knights in five<br \/><strong>Emily Kaplan:<\/strong> Golden Knights in seven<br \/><strong>Tim Kavanagh:<\/strong> Golden Knights in six<br \/><strong>Rachel Kryshak:<\/strong> Golden Knights in seven<br \/><strong>Peter Lawrence-Riddell:<\/strong> Hurricanes in six<br \/><strong>Steve Levy:<\/strong> Golden Knights in seven<br \/><strong>Vince Masi:<\/strong> Hurricanes in six<br \/><strong>Victoria Matiash:<\/strong> Hurricanes in six<br \/><strong>Mark Messier:<\/strong> Golden Knights in seven<br \/><strong>Mike Monaco:<\/strong> Hurricanes in six<br \/><strong>T.J. Oshie:<\/strong> Hurricanes in seven<br \/><strong>Kristen Shilton:<\/strong> Hurricanes in seven<br \/><strong>P.K. Subban:<\/strong> Golden Knights<br \/><strong>Bob Wischusen:<\/strong> Hurricanes in seven<br \/><strong>Greg Wyshynski:<\/strong> Hurricanes in six<\/p>\n<p><strong>Consensus prediction:<\/strong> No consensus! 12 for each team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 Stanley Cup playoff field has been whittled down to two teams, and the Stanley Cup Final begins Tuesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_animmysite_disable_animation":false,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0601%2Fr1666662_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}