- Taylor Hall scored the Game 6 game-winner and won his first Stanley Cup
- It comes 16 years after Hall went No. 1 overall to Edmonton in 2010
- Read below for the rare draft, Hart and Cup trifecta Hall just completed
Taylor Hall waited 16 years for this. The Carolina winger scored the game-winning goal in the first period of Sunday’s 3-0 Game 6 win over Vegas, and by the end of the night he was a Stanley Cup champion for the first time.
Hall went first overall to the Edmonton Oilers in 2010. He won the Hart Trophy as league MVP with the New Jersey Devils in 2018. Now he has a ring with Carolina, the first player ever to be drafted No. 1, win a Hart and win a Cup with three different teams.
Catch his first-period winner in the Game 6 highlights:
The road here was anything but smooth. Hall has bounced through several franchises and lived through long stretches where the winning never came. He had never even reached a Cup Final before this spring.
Sebastian Aho handed him the Cup early in the celebration, right after Frederik Andersen got it. Carolina’s title run is laid out in full in our Game 6 recap.
The No. 1 pick who waited longer than anyone finally has his name on the Cup. Hall scored the goal that put it there.
