2006 Stanley Cup Finals

2006 Stanley Cup Finals
2006 Stanley Cup Finals
	* indicates periods of overtime
Location(s)	Raleigh: RBC Center (1, 2, 5, 7); Edmonton: Rexall Place (3, 4, 6)
Coaches	Carolina: Peter Laviolette; Edmonton: Craig MacTavish
Captains	Carolina: Rod Brind'Amour; Edmonton: Jason Smith
National anthems	Carolina: Holly Wilver; Edmonton: Paul Lorieau
Referees	Paul Devorski (1, 3, 5); Mick McGeough (1, 3, 5); Bill McCreary (2, 4, 6, 7); Brad Watson (2, 4, 6, 7)
Dates	June 5–19, 2006
MVP	Cam Ward (Hurricanes)
Series-winning goal	Frantisek Kaberle (second, 15:42, G7)
Hall of Famers	Hurricanes:; Mark Recchi (2017); Oilers:; Chris Pronger (2015)
Networks	Canada:; (English): CBC; (French): RDS; United States:; (English): OLN (1–2), NBC (3–7)
Announcers	(CBC) Bob Cole and Harry Neale; (RDS) Pierre Houde and Yvon Pedneault; (OLN/NBC) Mike Emrick and John Davidson; (NHL International) Dave Strader and Joe Micheletti

The 2006 Stanley Cup Finals was the championship series of the National Hockey League's (NHL) 2005–06 season, and the culmination of the 2006 Stanley Cup playoffs. The first Stanley Cup Finals since 2004 after a lockout canceled the entirety of the 2004–05 season, it was contested between the Eastern Conference champion Carolina Hurricanes and the Western Conference champion Edmonton Oilers. It was Carolina's second appearance in the Finals, the other being in 2002, a loss to the Detroit Red Wings. It was Edmonton's seventh appearance in the Finals and their first since winning their fifth Stanley Cup in 1990 and their last appearance until 2024. It was also the first (and to date only) Finals matchup between teams that entered the league in 1979.^[2] Carolina defeated Edmonton in seven games to win the franchise's first Stanley Cup and become the tenth post-1967 expansion team and third former WHA team to win the Cup. Carolina's 2006 win was also the team's second league championship (the club, then known as the New England Whalers won the WHA Championship in 1973).

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^ The 1979 expansion agreement between the NHL and the World Hockey Association resulted in what the NHL considers to be the folding of the WHA and the addition of four NHL franchises in their place including the Oilers and Hartford Whalers, the latter of which moved to North Carolina in 1998. The NHL does not consider the clubs admitted to the league in 1979 to be former WHA franchises.