2026 Stanley Cup Champion—Carolina Hurricanes

The 2026 Stanley Cup Final is settled: the Carolina Hurricanes are the 2026 champions, closing out the Vegas Golden Knights in the Final. The cross-exchange championship book has fully resolved—every team outside Carolina has zeroed out. Kalshi ran the deepest NHL Categorical on KXNHL-26; Polymarket and Manifold mirrored the 32-team championship, and all three settled on Carolina.

Anchor: Kalshi KXNHL-26. Polymarket—2026 NHL Stanley Cup Champion and Manifold's championship pie round out the cross-exchange view.

Kalshi's KXNHL-26 was the single highest-volume NHL market on any exchange through the Final. Both Kalshi and Polymarket listed every team; the pies below show the resolved book—Carolina at the top, every other team settled to zero.

Manifold's championship pie was a third independent read on the same Stanley Cup Final book that Kalshi and Polymarket price above—its lighter, crypto-rails liquidity diverged by a few points from the two larger venues before all three converged on Carolina.

• Final-pie resolution. With the bracket down to VGK vs CAR, the championship Categorical resolved to a clean outcome—Carolina to the top, the long-tail teams compressed to zero through settlement.
• Kalshi vs. Polymarket vs. Manifold spread. Kalshi carried the dominant volume; Polymarket sat second. Manifold's lighter book diverged by several points late—the cleanest read on where US-resident vs. crypto-rails liquidity disagreed before convergence.
• History chart. The full timeline on KXNHL-26 captures where the book convicted versus where it hesitated through the bracket and into the Final.