New footage of Rod Brind'Amour after the win is blowing up online

Rod Brind'Amour shed his shirt in the Carolina Hurricanes locker room Sunday night, and the whole hockey world lost its mind.

The Hurricanes clinched the Stanley Cup on the road in Las Vegas with a 3-0 win in Game 6, and the celebration that followed was exactly what you'd expect from a coach who has built this team in his own image.

Shirt off. Trophy raised. No speeches. Pure joy.

Sportsnet insider Elliotte Friedman posted the clip Monday afternoon with a message that cut right to the chase: "Should be the final submission to the Hall of Fame committee. It's time he gets in."

The video racked up 176,800 views in hours. The way Rod dropped the Cup is concerning, but everything was ok at the end.

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Brind'Amour, shirtless and grinning, dances through the locker room with teammates spraying around him.

The Hall of Fame case just got a lot harder to ignore

Friedman is right. The Hall of Fame voters have been dragging their feet on this one, and that locker room clip is the kind of thing that reminds you why this man is different.

He took over as head coach in May 2018. In eight seasons behind that bench, he turned Carolina into a 113-point team this year, finished second overall in the NHL, and now has the Cup.

The Hurricanes went 53-22-7 in the regular season, scoring 296 goals. They were built to grind, built to forecheck, built to reflect their coach.

The Cup run itself was a statement. Carolina swept Ottawa in the first round, swept Philadelphia in the second, beat Montreal in five, then closed out Vegas in six.

Four series. One loss in the first three. A road clincher.

Logan Stankoven scored 11 goals in 19 playoff games. Taylor Hall went plus-14 in the same span. Jackson Blake had 20 points in 19 games as a 22-year-old.

And through all of it, Brind'Amour kept his foot on the gas.

The coaching resume was already strong before Sunday. Now it has hardware attached.

Whether the Hall of Fame voters move on him this summer is its own question. But the argument has never been cleaner, and it took exactly 11 seconds of video to make it.