The Carolina Hurricanes captain had just received hockey\u2019s holy grail from NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman after a 3-0 win against the Vegas Golden Knights in Game 6 of the Cup Final at T-Mobile Arena.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After Staal celebrated with the Cup hoisted over his head, he gave it to goalie Frederik Andersen<\/a>, his teammate since 2021-22 who started Carolina\u2019s first 16 games in the Stanley Cup Playoffs this season before being replaced by Brandon Bussi<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n Andersen was 13-2 with a 1.89 goals-against average and .910 save percentage in the playoffs after going 16-14-5 with a 3.05 GAA and .874 save percentage in 35 regular-season games (all starts).<\/p>\n After Andersen got the Cup, he handed it to forward Taylor Hall<\/a>, who scored the game-winning goal in the first period Sunday.<\/p>\n After Hall, the handoff list went as follows: Sebastian Aho<\/a>, Jaccob Slavin<\/a>, Jordan Martinook<\/a>, Shayne Gostisbehere<\/a>, William Carrier<\/a>, Nicolas Deslauriers<\/a>, Sean Walker<\/a>, Jalen Chatfield<\/a>, Mark Jankowski<\/a>, Eric Robinson<\/a>, Andrei Svechnikov<\/a>, Nikolaj Ehlers<\/a>, Seth Jarvis<\/a>, Jesperi Kotkaniemi<\/a>, K’Andre Miller<\/a>,\u00a0Bussi, Mike Reilly<\/a>, Jackson Blake<\/a>, Logan Stankoven<\/a>, Alexander Nikishin<\/a>, Pyotr Kochetkov<\/a>, coach Rod Brind\u2019Amour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Carolina Hurricanes captain had just received hockey\u2019s holy grail from NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman after a 3-0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-737516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}