The Carolina Hurricanes are visiting the nation’s capital as they take on the Washington Capitals tonight in game one of their round two series. Game time is 7 P.M. and it will be televised by our friends at ESPN.
Both of these teams made fast work of their opponents in round one and have been off the last week, give or take a day.
The Hurricanes announced yesterday that they would not have a morning skate today. The lines from yesterday’s practice were as follows:
(Thanks to Walt Ruff)
Svechnikov – Aho – Blake
Hall – Kotkaniemi – Stankoven
Martinook – Staal – Jarvis
Robinson – Jankowski – Carrier
Slavin – Burns
Orlov – Chatfield
Gostisbehere – Walker
It looks like Fred Andersen will be back in net.
Tom Gulitti posted the lines for Washington:
No changes for Capitals at practice today:
Beauvillier-Strome-Ovechkin
McMichael-Dubois-Wilson
Mangiapane-Eller-Leonard
Duhaime-Dowd-Protas
Frank, Raddysh
Chychrun-Carlson
Sandin-Roy
Alexeyev-TvR
McIlrath-Bear
Thompson
Lindgren
Gibson
— Tom Gulitti (@TomGulittiNHL) May 5, 2025
The Capitals earned the second most points in the NHL and celebrated a great regular season as Alexander Ovechkin broke Wayne Gretzky’s goal scoring record.
They earned 111 points regular season compared to 99 for the Canes.
The Caps scored 288 goals and allowed 232.
The Canes scored 266 and allowed 233.
“The Warning Take” posted the following stat comparisons on the “X”.
5 on 5 Matchups with the current projected lines.
This will probably be the last time you see this format, I’ve come up with something better I hope to implement before Game 2 pic.twitter.com/cyXauVjEsr
— The Warning Take (@TheWarningTake) May 6, 2025
The team’s official preview is next.
https://www.nhl.com/hurricanes/news/preview-round-2-game-1-vs-wsh