{"id":591656,"date":"2026-06-05T07:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/591656\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T07:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:42:19","slug":"manitobans-dominate-game-2-of-stanley-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/591656\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitobans Dominate Game 2 Of Stanley Cup Final"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Stanley Cup Final has turned into a Manitoba showcase.<\/p>\n

From Oakbank\u2019s Brett Howden<\/a> continuing one of the most unlikely playoff scoring runs in NHL history, to Winnipeg<\/a>\u2019s Mark Stone<\/a> delivering a game-tying goal and Winnipeg\u2019s Seth Jarvis<\/a> ending the night in overtime, Game 2 belonged to the middle province.<\/p>\n

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The Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> ultimately walked away with a dramatic 4-3 overtime victory over the Vegas Golden Knights<\/a>, evening the series at 1-1, but there was no ignoring the Manitoba flavour throughout the contest.<\/p>\n

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Howden, who grew up just outside Winnipeg in Oakbank, continued his remarkable postseason with two more goals for Vegas, bringing his playoff total to 13. That number is especially eye-opening considering he found the back of the net just 12 times during the entire regular season.<\/p>\n

In doing so, Howden established a new NHL benchmark, becoming the first player in league history to score more goals in a single postseason than he did during a regular season in which he reached double digits.<\/p>\n

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The 27-year-old opened the scoring in the first period before adding another in the second, giving the Golden Knights<\/a> a 2-0 advantage and putting Vegas in position to take a commanding two-game series lead. Instead, Carolina stormed back.<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes scored three unanswered goals in the third period to flip the game on its head, but another Manitoba product had something to say about that.<\/p>\n

With the Golden Knights\u2019 net empty and time winding down, Captain Stone came through.<\/p>\n

The Winnipegger, who has built a career on clutch moments, buried the tying goal at 6-on-5 to force overtime and temporarily silence the Carolina crowd with just over a minute left to play. The Golden Knights’ leader once again showed why he remains one of the game\u2019s most reliable postseason performers.<\/p>\n

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But fittingly, the final word also belonged to Manitoba.<\/p>\n

Just 3:56 into overtime, Jarvis stepped into the spotlight. The Winnipeg-born forward blasted home a power-play one-timer to complete Carolina\u2019s comeback and send the Hurricanes home with the series tied heading back to Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Jarvis\u2019 winner was another defining moment in what has become a spectacular postseason run for the 24-year-old, who continues to establish himself as one of the Hurricanes\u2019 most important offensive weapons.<\/p>\n

And while the three Manitoba goal scorers stole the spotlight in Game 2, another familiar name to Winnipeg hockey fans remains right in the middle of it all.<\/p>\n

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Former Jets forward Nikolaj Ehlers<\/a> is chasing his first Stanley Cup in his first season away from Winnipeg. After years of postseason frustration with the Jets, the Danish winger has become a key piece of Carolina\u2019s championship push.<\/p>\n

Ehlers made his presence felt immediately in the series opener, scoring twice in Game 1, including one of the fastest goals to begin a Stanley Cup Final in league history.<\/p>\n

The storyline remains bittersweet for Jets fans. After watching Ehlers depart, Winnipeg\u2019s former first-round pick now sits three victories away from accomplishing what he spent nearly a decade attempting to achieve in Manitoba.<\/p>\n

But even without the Jets involved, Manitoba\u2019s fingerprints are all over the Stanley Cup Final.<\/p>\n

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Through two games, the series has featured clutch goals, historic performances and unforgettable moments from players who grew up within a short drive of what was then called the MTS Centre.<\/p>\n

No matter which team eventually lifts the Stanley Cup, Manitoba will certainly have played a major role in making it happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Stanley Cup Final has turned into a Manitoba showcase. From Oakbank\u2019s Brett Howden continuing one of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5121],"tags":[1741,29,149,5,78,1021,1040,4,794,1177,14,4302,39,77,18,5288],"class_list":["post-591656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg-jets","tag-brett-howden","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-golden-knights","tag-hockey","tag-jets","tag-manitoba","tag-mark-stone","tag-nhl","tag-nikolaj-ehlers","tag-seth-jarvis","tag-stanley-cup","tag-stanley-cup-final","tag-vegas-golden-knights","tag-winnipeg","tag-winnipeg-jets","tag-winnipegjets"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116696379991638023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591656","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=591656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}