The Carolina Hurricanes engraved tiny brooms next to the Ottawa and Philadelphia series scores on their Stanley Cup rings, and that detail is the cleanest piece of hockey honesty this league has produced in years.
Private ceremony in Raleigh after preseason wrapped. Jason of Beverly Hills did the work. Nearly 900 individually set stones. 9.80 carats of white diamonds. 1.40 carats of natural red rubies. The numbers are not decoration. Fifty-three diamond points mark the 53 regular-season wins. Sixty-six rubies track the 66 goals scored in the playoff run. Sixty-nine ruby points cover the combined regular-season and postseason win total. Forty-two white diamonds ring the North Carolina state flag for the goals scored once the Eastern Conference Final and Stanley Cup Final arrived. Then the underside: CAR 4–OTT 0, CAR 4–PHI 0, CAR 4–MTL 1, CAR 4–VGK 2, plus the 16-3 overall. Brooms sit only next to the two sweeps.
That is a box score you wear.
The Brooms Document a Machine, Not a Mood
Fan reaction hit the broom first. “Did they really need to add the broom beside Ottawa and Philly,” one wrote. Another called it “brutal.” A third needed five words: “The broom on the inside got me.” A Flyers supporter noted the obvious: the Flyers now live forever on someone else’s championship jewelry. All fair. All incomplete.
Carolina went undefeated through the first two best-of-seven rounds, the first team to do it since that format locked in 1987. The full run finished 16-3. That is the second-fewest losses by a Cup champion in the four-round era, behind only the 1988 Oilers at 16-2. They swept Ottawa, swept Philadelphia, handled Montreal in five, then climbed out of a 2-1 hole against Vegas and closed it in six with a 3-0 Game 6 at T-Mobile Arena on June 14. The mechanism never changed: heavy forecheck, structured defensive shell, zero mercy once a series tilted. The ring calls that identity “Stress Game” right on the side next to the alternate storm flag. The brooms are simply the receipts for the two rounds that never required a Game 5.
GM Eric Tulsky put the design brief in plain language: “Jason of Beverly Hills created a remarkable piece that captures the spirit of our organization and what this group accomplished together. Every detail reflects the character of this team, from the way we played to the people who made this season unforgettable.”
Jason Arasheben, the jeweler who built it, went further: “Every element was intentionally designed to honor the team’s culture, defining moments and the collective effort that brought the Stanley Cup to Carolina.” Intentionally. The brooms were a choice, not a flourish. Carolina decided the permanent record should include the part of the run that was historically rare.
Every Carat Tracks the Process
Most Cup rings sell the feeling. This one sells the process. Removable puck pendant that reveals Stormy underneath. Sculpted rope motif. Player last names, signatures, and jersey numbers on one flank. Series scores and the 16-3 on the shank. The diamond and ruby counts are literal tallies of wins and goals. You can reverse-engineer the entire championship from the stone counts alone. That is scheme made wearable.
A fan version runs $15,995 if anyone wants the same story on their own hand. Title defense starts Tuesday at Lenovo Center against the Florida Panthers at 5 p.m. ET, the first leg of ESPN’s opening-night tripleheader. The rings are already distributed. The brooms are already inside the metal. Carolina did not invent the sweep. They simply refused to leave the evidence off the jewelry.
Taste arguments against the brooms will fade. The 16-3 and the two undefeated rounds will not. Those little brooms next to 4-0 and 4-0 are the part of the ring that tells the truth without needing a press release.
