{"id":717029,"date":"2026-06-21T08:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T08:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/717029\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T08:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T08:18:12","slug":"hurricanes-bring-now-infamous-cinder-block-to-stanley-cup-championship-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/717029\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes bring now-infamous cinder block to Stanley Cup championship parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And now introducing the members of the 2026 Stanley Cup Champion Carolina Hurricanes &#8230; starting with this cinder block.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s right, the 35-pound, gray, concrete rectangle that was curiously placed in the Hurricanes workout room this season made it all the way to the stage.<\/p>\n<p>The story goes that Hurricanes coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/rod-brind-amour-8445735\" title=\"Rod Brind&#039;Amour\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rod Brind&#8217;Amour<\/a>\u00a0put the block in the gym and added the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BR_OpenIce\/status\/2066558637347053858?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">blue collar press<\/a>&#8221; to the team&#8217;s workout routine. Before players left, they were to pick up the cinder block, press it and think of the blue-collar work ethic that they needed to make the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, it just so happens the Stanley Cup weighs 34.6 pounds. Brind&#8217;Amour was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/topic\/short-shifts\/short-shifts-power-rankings-june-19-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">having the team practice lifting the Cup<\/a> without the players ever knowing.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the Hurricanes paraded the inanimate object out onstage with them. Forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jordan-martinook-8476921\" title=\"Jordan Martinook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Martinook<\/a>\u00a0brought the block out and placed it at the foot of the podium. Only this time it was backed up by the actual Stanley Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, practice makes perfect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And now introducing the members of the 2026 Stanley Cup Champion Carolina Hurricanes &#8230; starting with this cinder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-717029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717029","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=717029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}