{"id":589434,"date":"2026-06-02T15:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/589434\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T15:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:09:16","slug":"mayors-place-bets-on-2026-stanley-cup-final-between-vegas-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/589434\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayors place bets on 2026 Stanley Cup Final between Vegas, Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (KSNV) \u2014 The mayors for the two teams in the 2026 Stanley Cup Final have made their wagers.<\/p>\n<p>Las Vegas Mayor Shelley Berkley posted a video on Monday accepting a friendly bet from Janet Cowell, her counterpart in Raleigh, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Cowell challenged Berkley over the outcome of the championship series between the Vegas Golden Knights and the Carolina Hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED | <a href=\"https:\/\/news3lv.com\/news\/local\/golden-knights-stanley-cup-run-brings-economic-windfall-to-southern-nevada#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Golden Knights\u2019 Stanley Cup run brings economic windfall to Southern Nevada<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the Golden Knights emerge victorious, Cowell says she will send barbecue for Berkley to enjoy. Berkley upped the ante, challenging Cowell to wear a Golden Knights jersey at a city council meeting as well.<\/p>\n<p>Should the Canes win, Berkley will have to send Cowell a sequined Carolina jersey and wear a Hurricanes jersey at a council meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Berkley also offered to send a &#8220;Las Vegas gift basket to die for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I were you, I would never bet against Vegas,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final <a href=\"https:\/\/news3lv.com\/news\/local\/game-day-vegas-golden-knights-stanley-cup-final-game-1-carolina-hurricanes-nhl-sports-hockey-championship-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">is set for Tuesday, June 2<\/a>, in Raleigh, followed by Game 2 on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The series shifts to Las Vegas for Game 3 on Saturday, June 6, and Game 4 on Tuesday, June 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (KSNV) \u2014 The mayors for the two teams in the 2026 Stanley Cup Final have made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5107],"tags":[194,29,5176,5,195,4],"class_list":["post-589434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-carolina-hurricanes","tag-carolina","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-carolinahurricanes","tag-hockey","tag-hurricanes","tag-nhl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116681150627711126","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589434","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=589434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}