{"id":1934399,"date":"2026-09-22T06:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T10:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1934399"},"modified":"2026-09-22T07:42:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:42:45","slug":"the-carolina-hurricanes-now-face-a-new-challenge-playing-as-reigning-stanley-cup-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1934399","title":{"rendered":"The Carolina Hurricanes now face a new challenge: playing as reigning Stanley Cup champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Carolina Hurricanes enter the 2026-27 season as the reigning Stanley Cup champion. That comes after they broke through an Eastern Conference Final roadblock and then beat Vegas in the Stanley Cup Final. The Hurricanes return with a roster almost completely intact. They lost veteran goaltender&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/ap\/fc7dc-the-carolina-hurricanes-now-face-a-new-challenge-playing-as-reigning-stanley-cup-champion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carolina Hurricanes enter the 2026-27 season as the reigning Stanley Cup champion. That comes after they broke through an Eastern Conference Final roadblock and then&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[117,118,114,115,119,116],"class_list":["post-1934399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","tag-barcelona","tag-bayern","tag-cricket","tag-india","tag-madrid","tag-pakistan","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1934399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934400,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934399\/revisions\/1934400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1934399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1934399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1934399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}