{"id":587811,"date":"2026-05-31T12:30:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T12:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/587811\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T12:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T12:30:34","slug":"hurricanes-defenseman-looking-to-match-feat-set-by-islanders-legend-ken-morrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/587811\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricanes Defenseman Looking To Match Feat Set By Islanders Legend Ken Morrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> punched their ticket to the 2026 Stanley Cup Final on Friday night, knocking out the Montreal Canadiens<\/a> in five games.<\/p>\n

The Canes have been knocking on the door for some time now, with Conference Final appearances (and losses) in 2019, 2023, and 2025.<\/p>\n

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2026 became Carolina’s breakthrough, and they sit at an astonishing record of 12-1 entering the Stanley Cup Final.<\/p>\n

History will be on the line for obvious reasons, but one subtle reason directly involves a New York Islanders<\/a> legend.<\/p>\n

Hurricanes defenseman Jaccob Slavin<\/a> seeks to become the first American to win an Olympic Gold Medal and the Stanley Cup in the same season since Ken Morrow accomplished the feat in 1980.<\/p>\n

Morrow was part of the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” team that knocked off the Soviet Union en route to a historic gold medal.<\/p>\n

Immediately after the Olympics, Morrow signed with the Islanders, playing 18 regular season games, posting three assists.<\/p>\n

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Morrow then played 20 of the 21 playoff games for the Islanders, adding his first NHL goal and two more assists on the path to the Stanley Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Carolina Hurricanes punched their ticket to the 2026 Stanley Cup Final on Friday night, knocking out the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5110],"tags":[29,5,122,1238,3251,21,3328,159,5190,5189,4,15236,14,4302],"class_list":["post-587811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-islanders","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-hockey","tag-islanders","tag-jaccob-slavin","tag-ken-morrow","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkislanders","tag-nhl","tag-olympic-gold-medal","tag-stanley-cup","tag-stanley-cup-final"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116669200659913490","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}