Las Vegas steaks, Carolina barbecue on the line as Catholic bishops wager on Stanley Cup

Vegas Golden Knights squad skipper Mark Stone (61) skates the Stanley Cup Trophy aft the Golden Knights bushed the Florida Panthers 9-3 successful Game 5 to triumph the Stanley Cup Final astatine T-Mobile Arena Tuesday, June 13, 2023, successful Las Vegas. Photo by: Steve Marcus

A brace of Catholic bishops are putting their determination pridefulness — and their champion section cuisine — connected the enactment for the Stanley Cup Finals.

Archbishop George Leo Thomas of the Archdiocese of Las Vegas and Bishop Luis Rafael Zarama of the Diocese of Raleigh, N.C., person placed a affable wager connected the bid betwixt the Vegas Golden Knights and the Carolina Hurricanes.

Thomas is offering 2 Mafioso steak packages from Las Vegas' Golden Steer Steakhouse. Zarama has enactment up Carolina barbecue and a pecan pie.

“Las Vegas ne'er folds nether pressure,” Thomas said successful a quality release. “And erstwhile it comes to the Golden Knights, we are each in. In Las Vegas, we cognize a small thing not conscionable astir bully steaks, and astir precocious stakes.”

Thomas added that helium is praying the steaks enactment successful Las Vegas. 

“The lone happening amended than a bully steak is simply a Golden Knights victory,” helium said.

The wager celebrates the enthusiasm of some hockey communities, and the joyousness that sports tin bring to families, fans and neighbors, the archdiocese of Las Vegas said successful a statement.

“While my member bishop is overmuch much acquainted with wagering than I am, it is my pleasance to stock successful this mode the blessings of our respective dioceses arsenic we basal for our location teams,” Zarama said. “Good luck, God bless and Go Canes!”

Thomas besides wagered steaks from Golden Steer successful 2023 erstwhile the Golden Knights bushed the Florida Panthers successful the Stanley Cup. Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami stake autochthonal chromatic crabs and hand-rolled Cuban cigars from Miami’s Little Havana.