{"id":670848,"date":"2026-05-28T21:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/670848\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T21:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:37:10","slug":"stanley-cup-final-schedule-if-the-hurricanes-win-when-would-they-host-games-1-and-2-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/670848\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanley Cup Final schedule: If the Hurricanes win, when would they host Games 1 and 2? :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Stanley Cup Final could start in Raleigh as soon as June 2 if the Carolina Hurricanes knock off the Montreal Canadiens in Friday night&#8217;s Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Final.<\/p>\n<p>If the Hurricanes and Canadiens need Game 6 or 7 to decide their best-of-seven series, the Stanley Cup Final would begin on June 4. The NHL released the schedule Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Carolina leads Montreal 3-1 after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/sports\/hurricanes-vs-montreal-game-four-eastern-conference-final-may-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a dominant 4-0 road victory in Game 4<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Vegas Golden Knights won the Western Conference and await the winner of the Hurricanes-Canadiens series. The winner of the Eastern Conference Final will have home-ice advantage in the final. Games 1, 2, 5 and 7, if necessary, would be in Raleigh if the Hurricanes advance.<\/p>\n<p>The Hurricanes last reached the Stanley Cup Final in 2006 when they defeated Edmonton for the championship.<\/p>\n<p>2026 STANLEY CUP FINAL SCHEDULE<\/p>\n<p>(IF ECF IS DECIDED IN 5 GAMES)<\/p>\n<p>Game 1: Tuesday, June 2, 8 p.m. Vegas at Carolina\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Game 2: Thursday, June 4, 8 p.m. Vegas at Carolina<\/p>\n<p>Game 3: Saturday, June 6, 8 p.m. Carolina at Vegas\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Game 4: Tuesday, June 9, 8 p.m. Carolina at Vegas<\/p>\n<p>Game 5*: Thursday, June 11, 8 p.m. Vegas at Carolina<\/p>\n<p>Game 6*: Sunday, June 14, 8 p.m. Carolina at Vegas<\/p>\n<p>Game 7*: Wednesday, June 17 8 p.m. Vegas at Carolina<\/p>\n<p>2026 STANLEY CUP FINAL SCHEDULE<\/p>\n<p>(IF ECF IS DECIDED IN 6 OR 7 GAMES)<\/p>\n<p>Game 1: Thursday, June 4, 8 p.m. Vegas at Carolina\/Montreal\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Game 2: Saturday, June 6, 8 p.m. Vegas at Carolina\/Montreal<\/p>\n<p>Game 3: Tuesday, June 9, 8 p.m. Carolina\/Montreal at Vegas<\/p>\n<p>Game 4: Thursday, June 11, 8 p.m. Carolina\/Montreal at Vegas<\/p>\n<p>Game 5*: Sunday, June 14, 8 p.m. Vegas at Carolina\/Montreal<\/p>\n<p>Game 6*: Wednesday, June 17, 8 p.m. Carolina\/Montreal at Vegas<\/p>\n<p>Game 7*: Saturday, June 20, 8 p.m. Vegas at Carolina\/Montreal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Stanley Cup Final could start in Raleigh as soon as June 2 if the Carolina Hurricanes knock&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[4821,385,77324,99],"class_list":["post-670848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-playoffs","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}