Eichel, Hanifin, Slavin could make history with Stanley Cup wins

While it’s every hockey player’s dream to lift Lord Stanley’s Cup, a few players competing in this year’s Stanley Cup Final have a chance to place themselves in an elite class.

Heading into this year’s final, there are three players who have a chance to win both a Stanley Cup and Olympic gold in the same season. Vegas Golden Knights teammates Jack Eichel and Noah Hanifin, along with Carolina Hurricanes defenseman Jaccob Slavin, have a chance to join an elite class that includes Hockey Hall of Famers Steve Yzerman and Brendan Shanahan, as well as Jonathan Toews, Duncan Keith, Brent Seabrook, Drew Doughty and Jeff Carter.

The three are trying to become the first Americans to accomplish the feat since Ken Morrow won gold in 1980 before winning a Cup with the New York Islanders a few months later.

On Tuesday’s edition of Daily Faceoff LIVE, Tyler Yaremchuk and Carter Hutton discuss the possibility of history being made in this year’s final.

Carter Hutton: I think that’s a great storyline today for the NHL, for this Stanley Cup run, is players to be able to. We talk about rest and rust and everything that goes into it. It’d be a pretty tremendous year for some of these players to be able to do both

Tyler Yaremchuk: The Hall of Fame debate always gets tied into, ‘Do you have the ring?’ Right, You always need at least one ring. For Eichel, he’s got one, he’s got an Olympic gold, is a second Stanley Cup? Does that put him into that bona fide first ballot Hall of Famer? I think you can make an argument he probably already is there, but a guy like Slavin, who’s, I don’t want to say has been overlooked his entire career, but he’s definitely been one of the more underrated players of his era for a pretty long stretch. If he goes Olympic gold and Stanley Cup ring in one year, does that push him into the Hall of Fame first ballot?

You can watch the full segment and entire episode here…