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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Thousands of jubilant Carolina Hurricanes fans crammed onto sidewalks, gathered around office building windows, even lined up on floor after floor of at least one parking deck<\/a> to cheer and wave at the team\u2019s Stanley Cup championship<\/a> parade on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The turnout that packed downtown was enough to leave their coach \u2014 the captain of the team\u2019s last Cup winner<\/a> 20 years earlier \u2014 at a loss.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m in shock,\u201d Rod Brind\u2019Amour said in the gap between the end of the parade and the start of the rally that would end the day\u2019s festivities in North Carolina\u2019s capital. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t very often, but I\u2019m just kinda speechless.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes brought their Stanley Cup celebration to downtown Raleigh on Saturday, with thousands of fans arriving hours early to line the parade route and grab a spot near the rally stage. The players boarded double-decker buses for the parade that weaved by the State Capitol building, while Brind\u2019Amour was in the back of a late-model truck taking in the scene.<\/p>\n

They were greeted by fans screaming, chanting, waving flags and wearing Carolina jerseys, still buzzing from the franchise beating the Vegas Golden Knights last weekend to win the Cup for the second time, the other coming in 2006.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was trying to explain to the fellas what I knew was going to happen,\u201d said captain Jordan Staal, who won the Conn Smythe Trophy<\/a> as the playoff MVP. \u201cAnd my expectations were so high because I know these Caniacs, I know what they\u2019re all about, and I was still blown away. I couldn\u2019t even describe how amazing that was.\u201d<\/p>\n

The team took the rally stage with Staal hoisting the Stanley Cup skyward before a roaring crowd, while Jordan Martinook and Andrei Svechnikov were among a line of Hurricanes players who kept intermittently cranking the \u201cStorm Warning\u201d siren that is a pregame tradition for the team to take the ice.<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes even got some business done, with general manager Eric Tulsky calling reserve forward Nicolas Deslauriers to the podium to sign a two-year $1.75 million deal. The trade-deadline acquisition was set to become an unrestricted free agent, one of the few bits of roster uncertainty for a team that has the core of its roster locked up to long-term deals.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, though, it was a daylong party.<\/p>\n

Carly Goodman, 35, of Raleigh, was hard to miss in the front row behind barricades in front of the stage where the parade would end with a rally. She sported a red Sebastian Aho jersey, waved a large Hurricanes flag and was blinged out with a silver \u201cStanley Cup\u201d chain necklace.<\/p>\n

She was drinking from a \u201cbeer skate,\u201d the novelty mug shaped like a Hurricanes skate that sold out immediately during the Game 1 of the second-round series against Philadelphia. She got up at 5 a.m. \u2014 \u201cLet my dogs out, they were mad to get up,\u201d she said \u2014 and made sure to head straight downtown hours in advance to ensure a prime spot.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been something special ever since 2006,\u201d Goodman said. \u201cRaleigh\u2019s a small market. We\u2019ve got college sports, but this is epic. It\u2019s a team that everybody can get behind. It breaks down all the barriers. Everyone just comes together and smiles, no matter if you\u2019re a Duke fan, Carolina fan, whatever \u2014 it doesn\u2019t matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was a longer trek for Scott Stiles, 60, and his son, Joey, 24. They weren\u2019t about to miss the celebration even though they live in Concord, a city outside of Charlotte known for its ties to NASCAR and other motorsports. So they hopped in the car around 3 a.m. to make the 2 1\/2-hour drive, arriving more than five hours before the parade was scheduled to start and finding fans like Goodman already waiting closer to the City Plaza stage.<\/p>\n

The duo \u2014 Scott in an Andrei Svechnikov jersey, Joey wearing a Seth Jarvis one \u2014 had chairs plopped in the middle of Fayetteville Street straight back from the stage, their spot marked by a giant Hurricanes flag.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen\u2019s the next time they\u2019re going to win a Cup?\u201d Scott said, pausing as a \u201cLet\u2019s go Canes!\u201d chant wrapped up. \u201cThey might win it again next year, who knows? But we wanted to be a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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