Overview
- The Carolina Hurricanes unveiled the updated Stanley Cup engraving on Thursday, July 9, showing owner Tom Dundon followed by his wife Veruschka and five children occupying the first two lines of the team’s 2025–26 entry.
- Those seven Dundon names appear before front‑office leaders, coaches and players, using roughly 90 characters and contributing to the team submitting fewer than the 55-name maximum.
- Because of the limited space, several contributors were omitted from this year’s engraving, including defenseman Joel Nystrom, longtime equipment manager Bobby Gorman and the team’s three new minority investors.
- The Hockey Hall of Fame says it only cares for the Cup and did not choose names, while freelance reporting says NHL hockey operations — reported sign‑off by Colin Campbell — approved the Hurricanes’ submitted list.
- The move has drawn broad online criticism, revived historical precedents (the Pocklington chiselling and recent Viola inclusions) and is likely to renew calls for clearer NHL rules or review processes on who may be engraved.